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State of emergency over Italy bad weather

The Italian government has declared a state of emergency over bad weather which hit the country last month, freeing up €14 million to rebuild damaged areas.

Published: 13 March 2015 16:42 CET
State of emergency over Italy bad weather
Heavy snow hit the Emilia-Romagna region and elsewhere in Italy last month. Bologna photo: Shutterstock

Lawmakers on Thursday approved the measure for the central Emilia-Romagna region, where the government said wintry weather hit with “exceptional intensity” between February 4th and 7th.

Around €14 million of funding will now be made available for the region, which will be used in hard-hit areas such as the coast.

Councillor Paola Gazzolo welcomed the news as an “important result, achieved in rapid time in spite of the long procedure expected by the law.”

A regional commissioner will now be appointed to draw up plans on how to spend the emergency funds.

Emilia-Romagna was one of the worst-hit regions in February, with one seaside town completely cut off and 19 people evacuated from floods.

Heavy snow also hit the region and elsewhere in Italy, causing electricity outages and prompting schools to shut close to the French border. 

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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