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Cold, wet and windy Easter for Denmark

Easter egg hunts will probably be better off kept indoors this year.

Published: 12 April 2017 12:35 CEST
Cold, wet and windy Easter for Denmark
Photo: Iris/Scanpix

Low pressure over the whole country means the Easter holidays will see winter-like cold temperatures and rain.

Temperatures will not reach far over ten degrees Celsius (50°F), according to weather forecasts.

“Easter will be characterised by rain, showers and wind. The sun will peek through occasionally. The first low pressure front will pass on Wednesday and the second on Saturday,” Trine Pedersen, duty meteorologist with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), told newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

A Polar front reaching over Denmark is the cause of the dreary weather, says DMI.

“When the Polar front is south of Denmark and we are above it, there weather for us is cold and windy and we are typically visited regularly by fronts with rainy weather. That is exactly how the weather has decided to act in the coming days,” wrote DMI on its website.

Even on the driest days – Good Friday and Easter Monday – temperatures will struggle to reach double figures, writes DMI.

Thursday will bring a little sun, but also rain and even hail. Temperatures will range from eight to 11 degrees (48-52°F) with a hard westerly wind, reports Jyllands-Posten.

Good Friday will start dry with showers coming later in the day.

Drabber weather still will arrive Saturday, with more rain and temperatures reach as far down as five degrees Celsius (41°F).

“It will probably be the worst day of Easter,” Pedersen said.

A little more sun – but again rain and hail – will accompany the Easter bunny on Sunday, if possible thunder storms don’t scare it off.

Monday will again feel cool at between five and eight degrees Celsius (41-46°F).

“The day will again bring showers with hail or sleet supplemented with a bit of sun,” said Pedersen.

The Easter holiday period will end with sub-zero temperatures of -4°C (25°F) on Monday night.

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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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