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Woman hurt by falling tree amid high winds in Rome

One person was injured in Rome on Monday as strong winds felled scores of trees in and around the Italian capital.

Published: 9 April 2018 18:31 CEST
Woman hurt by falling tree amid high winds in Rome
The River Tiber, which has been running high for several weeks after torrential rains. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP

A woman was taken to hospital after a falling tree hit her car on the Via del Mare in south-west Rome. Her injuries were reported to be minor.

READ ALSO: Toppling tree crushes taxi in Rome

Other cars and at least one balcony was damaged by flying branches elsewhere in the city, while some roads were temporarily closed and traffic held up. As well as trees, a number of telephone poles and roof tiles were also blown down. 

In total, firefighters were called out at least 40 times across greater Rome and especially its coast, which was battered by heavy rain and winds sweeping in from the Tyrrhenian Sea. 

The station of Prima Porta, on the train line between Rome and Viterbo, was closed to northbound trains due to the bad weather, which follows several days of long-awaited sun in the capital. 

And the surrounding region of Lazio issued a weather alert until at least Monday evening, warning of storms and high seas.

READ ALSO: Watch the moment one of Rome's monster sinkholes opens

According to meteorologists, Lazio found itself at the centre of a “cyclonic vortex” moving in from the north-west, which also brought rain to Tuscany and Umbria. 

While conditions in the centre are expected to improve from Tuesday, the north-west of Italy will suffer in coming days, with rain and storms forecast to intensify midweek until at least Thursday. 

Better weather is expected to return from the 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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