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Spring back in Denmark, but for how long?

After an extended absence, warmth and sunshine is expected to return to Denmark on Monday but what everyone wants to know is whether it will remain until the national holiday on Thursday.

Published: 11 May 2015 09:35 CEST
Spring back in Denmark, but for how long?
Bottom line: Get out and enjoy it today if you can. Photo: Brian Bergmann/Scanpix
First the good news: Monday will bring a return of warm spring-like weather to Denmark. 
 
The bad news: just how warm it gets will vary depending on location and nowhere in the country is the nicer weather expected to stick around long. 
 
“The wind is coming from the south so we can temporarily enjoy the warmth that is south of us. But that will only be in central and southern Jutland,” broadcaster DR’s meteorologist Morten Lynge predicted. 
 
Temperatures are expected to top 20C in the southern part of the country, while the nation’s coastal regions will be plagued by hard winds that will keep temperatures down to the 13-15C range. 
 
On Zealand, meteorology institute DMI is calling for a high of 18C. 
 
Regardless of where you are in Denmark, you’d be well advised to get out and enjoy what Monday has to offer. By the time Ascension Day rolls around on Thursday, the weather will make for a cool day off.  
 
“Already tonight there will be front bringing rain and the winds will turn so that we get cooler air for the rest of the week. We’ll be back between 10-15 degrees,” DMI spokeswoman Trine Pedersen told Metroxpress. 
 
While the temperatures are expected to drop back down, DMI was only calling for rain on Tuesday and Wednesday, with things clearing off just in time for the national holiday on Thursday. Temperatures however are not expected to top 15C, so those also taking Friday off for a long weekend at the summer house are well advised to remember their jackets. 

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Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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