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Colder than Scotland? Spain temp drops to 2C

It is said that what goes up must come down. After sizzling through a heatwave last week parts of Spain are now shivering in temperatures as low as 2C.

Published: 20 May 2015 15:13 CEST
Colder than Scotland? Spain temp drops to 2C
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After exeriencing record heat last week – reaching an unseasonable record of 42C – temperatures are set to plummet across Spain, with the mercury falling especially low in central Spain, as well as the Pyrenees, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

One motorist captured incredible footage of his car windscreen being smashed during a ferocious hailstorm in Murcia on Tuesday.

The provinces of Segovia, Palencia and Avila are set to experience lows of 3C, while Burgos, Soria and León will register lows of 2C.

The provinces of Huesca, Zaragoza, Tarragona and Castellón are currently on yellow alert for strong winds according to Spanish weather agency, AEMET while the islands of La Gomera, La Palma, Gran Canaria, Mallorca and Menorca are on the same alert for high waves.

Cloudy skies are expected over much of the Mediterranean coastal area, while there is a chance of showers.

Storms are forecast for eastern Catalonia, Eastern Andalusia and the northern Spanish enclave of Melilla. 

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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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