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Downpour warnings issued for Aarhus, Copenhagen… and Roskilde

The Roskilde Festival is in the area of Denmark predicted to receive heavy rain over the coming days.

Published: 28 June 2017 14:07 CEST
Downpour warnings issued for Aarhus, Copenhagen... and Roskilde
Photo: Torben Christensen/Scanpix

Rainproof footwear is also a likely necessity in other parts of the country, warns the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).

The eastern half of the country and the northern part of Jutland can expect downpours on Thursday and Friday, according to DMI.

Between 25 and 33 millimetres of rain are predicted to fall within six hours in some parts of the country.

As much as 15 millimetres of rain could fall within half an hour during localised downpours, DMI reports.

The agency’s warning of heavy rain and downpours is effective for North Jutland, Djursland, northwest Aarhus, and swathes of western and central Jutland along with both northern and southern Zealand, Copenhagen, and the islands of Lolland, Falster and Bornholm.

It is not certain that all of these areas will be hit by the downpour, but heavy rain is possible in all of them.

The warning is in place from 2am Thursday for Zealand and 12pm Thursday for Jutland, and remains in place in both areas until Friday afternoon.

Meteorologist Søren Vallentin Jacobsen of Danish broadcaster DR said the warning was “relatively serious”.

“We have a quite unstable air mass moving from eastern Germany up over the eastern and northern part of Denmark. This is where it will be most humid and warm, and will lead to heavy rain, thunder and downpours,” Jacobsen told DR.

Thousands of people currently camping at the Roskilde Festival on Zealand could well find themselves in for a wet couple of days.

But Jacobsen said that there were no guarantees over where the downpours would actually fall.

“We don’t know whether there will be one downpour or 30, or where they will be. But there will be rain,” he said.

READ ALSO: Downpours and thunder warnings issued for Denmark

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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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