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Heatwave warnings extended across central and southern France

Some 19 departments in France are now on alert due to the high temperatures as the latest heatwave shows no sign of relenting.

Published: 31 July 2018 17:16 CEST
Heatwave warnings extended across central and southern France
AFP

French weather agency Météo France extended the heatwave warnings on Tuesday from nine to 19 departments.

Those departments placed on Orange alert on Tuesday were Aude, Bouches-du-Rhône, la Corse-du-Sud, Haute-Corse, Côte d'Or, Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin, Saone-et-Loire, Var, Territoire-de-Belfort.

Another nine departments:  Ardèche, Drôme, Pyrénées-Orientales, Rhône, Alpes-Maritimes, Gard, Hérault, Isère and Vaucluse, were already on alert for the heatwave.

Méteo France indicated that at around 3pm on Tuesday temperatures were reaching up to 36C in parts of theLyon area of central France and Alsace in the east.

Further south however in the Rhône Valley and the departments along the Mediterranean coast, the mercury was forecast to hit 39C.

 

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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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