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Denmark has coldest April night this century

Early Wednesday morning saw the coldest April temperatures in Denmark since 1997.

Published: 19 April 2017 08:22 CEST
Denmark has coldest April night this century
Photo: Iris

And there is still no sign of spring yet, say meteorologists.

“We have touched on a few records during the night,” duty meteorologist Trine Pedersen of the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) told newspaper Politiken.

Temperatures at Karup Airport in central Jutland were recorded at -6°C (21.2°F), reports TV2 – the coldest April morning this century.

Not since 1997 has more than six degrees below zero been recorded in Denmark during the fourth month of the year, according to TV2.

Pedersen said that a chill of -4.7°C (23.5°F) was measured at Karup at 7am on Wednesday, meaning frost on car windscreens and bicycle seats as well as risk of icy roads.

Similar icy conditions were also noted by DMI on Tuesday morning.

Still, cold air over Denmark from the north and a high pressure zone are the cause of the exceptionally cold April weather, reports Politiken.

DMI reported on Sunday that the first half of Spring (from March 1st to April 15th) had in fact been slightly warmer than average, and record warm temperatures were also recorded last month.

Rainfall during March and the first half of June was also slightly above normal levels, although the period was still relatively dry overall, wrote DMI on its website.

Wednesday night is also likely to bring frost but will be slightly milder than Tuesday, Pedersen told Politiken.

“Wind will turn and come from the west, which will make weather slightly milder,” she said.

But wind from the north west means that warmer weather is still some way off.

“It will be cool and windy again in the immediate future,” Pedersen said.

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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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