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Italy set for another long, sweltering summer

Temperatures will hit 30 degrees Celsius in parts of the country this weekend, a prelude to what forecasters say will be another hot summer for Italy.

Published: 12 April 2016 12:31 CEST
Italy set for another long, sweltering summer
'Frequent heatwaves' are forecast for the summer of 2016 in Italy. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP

The entire country will be drenched with sun over the coming week, with temperatures creeping up again thanks to a lingering anticyclone, mainly in the central and southern regions.

Sicily, Puglia and Calabria will be the hottest, with temperatures hovering between 28 and 30 degrees Celsius, according to forecasters at Ilmeteo.it.

Temperatures in Rome and Florence will reach around 24 degrees Celsius by the weekend, while the northern regions will be slightly cooler, with temperatures of 22 degrees Celsius.

Forecasters said the above-average spring temperatures are a prelude to what will probably be a “hot summer, with frequent heatwaves,” especially in the southern regions.

The summer of 2015 had much the same pattern, with heatwaves beginning in early May and the warm climate persisting until mid-November. 

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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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