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Norway faces windy winter weather

Rain and snow in the first part of the week will give way to potentially storm-level winds in December’s first week.

Published: 4 December 2017 19:34 CET
Norway faces windy winter weather
A Christmas tree toppled by wind in 2016. File photo: Jon Olav Nesvold / NTB scanpix

Norway’s first week of advent is set to be a windy one.

The Scandinavian country is set for rain and snowfall that can result in floods and avalanches in different parts of the country.

Heavy rainfall is expected over the counties of Hordaland and Rogaland on Tuesday and Wednesday, reports VG.

Between 100-200 millimetres of rain are forecast over the two days.

“It is quite a scary situation, whereby we have had an unusually large amount of snow in the mountains and now that is followed by large amounts of precipitation high up the mountains,” Lars Andreas Selberg of the Norwegian Meteorological Institute told VG.

The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) has issued avalanche warnings for Hordaland from Tuesday. Natural avalanches are expected in all directions underneath the current snow level, with the snow moving by as much as 1,500 metres at certain times.

The rain will be followed by a low pressure area which will bring strong winds, particularly in Rogaland but also in several other southern counties, Cecilie Villanger of the StormGeo weather forecasting service told VG.

“Wind strengths currently look to be between mild and full storm levels, but there could also be winds of hurricane strength,” Villanger said.

The same low pressure system could also bring high winds further north to the Nord-Trøndelag and southern Nordland counties, according to the report.

The front is expected to reach Norway on Thursday evening, bringing its strongest winds in the first 12 hours and continuing during Friday and Saturday. 

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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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