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Roasting temperatures set to hit the south east of France

The mercury is set to soar in south east France and Corsica in the days ahead.

Published: 2 August 2017 16:43 CEST
Roasting temperatures set to hit the south east of France
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Scorching temperatures are set to hit south east France on Wednesday with 12 departments placed on orange alert for heatwaves by national weather agency Météo France. 
 
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Hautes-Alpes, Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Bouches-du-Rhône, Corse-du-Sud, Haute-Corse, Drôme, Isère, Rhône, Var and Vaucluse have been placed on orange alert which calls for people to be “very vigilant”. 
 
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The 12 departments were placed on alert at midnight on Tuesday, with the current wave of hot temperatures expected to last until “at least” 9pm on Thursday, the national weather agency has said, adding that certain areas were already experiencing scorching temperatures at the end of Tuesday night.
 
It's predicted that maximum temperatures on Wednesday will easily reach above a roasting 34C in the Lyon area and Dauphiné in the south east and 36C in the Rhone Valley.
 
While on the French Riviera the mercury is really set to soar with temperatures expected to frequently go higher than 38C and occasionally even higher in Corsica, during the days ahead, the weather agency said. 

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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