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North eastern France on alert for floods

The north east of France is set for rough weather on Wednesday with several departments on alert for heavy rain and flooding.

North eastern France on alert for floods
File photo: Floods in France
Météo France, the country's meteorological service has issued orange alert warnings – the second highest grade of alert – for eight departments. 
 
These are Aube, Marne, Haute-Marne, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, Seine-et-Marne and Bas-Rhin.
 
Heavy rain and storms are set to hit the area Wednesday at around 6pm, which could lead to flooding.
 
The national weather agency predicts that the rain will “intensify” during the evening, “becoming moderate to strong during Wednesday night for the areas on orange alert”. 
 
 
 
The alerts are set to stay in place until Thursday, 6am.
 
The Orange alert asks residents to be vigilant especially when travelling.

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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.

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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