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Easter weather: Spain set for rain on the parades

Spaniards will tell you that ‘it always rains in Semana Santa” and this year they will most probably be right as downpours look certain across much of Spain next week.

Published: 22 March 2018 16:15 CET
Easter weather: Spain set for rain on the parades

Spain’s state meteorological agency (AEMET) predicts that unstable weather conditions blowing in from the Atlantic will begin on Palm Sunday bringing scattered showers and strong winds across much of the peninsula.

AEMET have issued special Holy Week weather forecast and are providing daily updates to the religious brotherhoods involved in staging the Easter parades which take place throughout the week beginning Sunday.

READ MORE: The essential guide to Easter in Spain


Huge processions are held in cities across Spain during Easter week. Photo: AFP 

There will be certain improvement on Monday and Tuesday with rain only expected in the north of country and a rise in temperatures that should bring clear skies perfect for attending processions.

But from Wednesday, the weather conditions are expected to worsen starting in the the Northwest of the country and sweeping south bringing rain showers and a drop in temperatures over Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and into the Easter weekend.

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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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