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More snow expected in southwestern Sweden

The heavy snowfall that swept in over southwestern Sweden on Monday is expected to continue until the early hours of Tuesday, the national weather service said, warning drivers of slippery roads in the counties of Halland, Jönköping and Västra Götaland.

Published: 19 February 2018 17:41 CET
More snow expected in southwestern Sweden
Some 10 centimetres of snow fell over southwestern Sweden on Monday. Photo: Pontus Lundahl/ TT file picture

Southwestern Sweden received nearly 10 centimetres of snow on Monday, but the snowflakes are expected to keep falling throughout the evening, national weather agency SMHI said.

It issued a class-one weather warning for the affected regions (the least serious on a scale from one to three).

Several traffic accidents were reported due to the slippery road conditions during the day, including a a bus crashing into a truck near Gunntorp in the south, and at least four trucks slid off the roads after a car crash near Tranemo.

“It's very slippery on the roads,” Christer Sjöstedt, a spokesman for the rescue services in Jönköping, told Swedish news agency TT.

According to SMHI, the snowfall is expected to taper off sometime overnight to Tuesday.

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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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