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Dordogne hit by first snow of the winter

IN PICTURES: The Dordogne in southwestern France woke up to snow on Monday morning, prompting a flurry of activity on social media. Take a look.

Dordogne hit by first snow of the winter
Photo: Mike Loseby/Twitter

Yes, winter has well and truly arrived in the Dordogne in south western France , with residents taking to social media to share their snowy pics as the temperatures plunge. 

The area, dubbed Dordogneshire, because of the hugh number of British living there, is more used to being soaked in sun than covered in a blanket, albeit a thin one, of snow.

Here's a closer look.

Click here to see more pics from the readers of Sud Ouest newspaper. 

For the rest of France, snow might be a little further away, particularly in the north. Temperatures on Monday night, however, are set to drop as low as -7C in the east and -6C in the south. (See map below).

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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.

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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