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Snow forecast for Paris as Lyon is placed on alert for winter weather

Winter doesn’t officially start in France until December but people in Paris and Lyon might want to get their warm coats out now as snowfall is forecast in both cities overnight on Monday.

Published: 19 November 2018 17:33 CET
Snow forecast for Paris as Lyon is placed on alert for winter weather
Photo: AFP

Temperatures are set to fall close to zero degrees tonight in the greater Paris region of Île-de-France on Monday night which means there is a chance Parisians will wake up to a blanket of snow on Tuesday morning.

Although don't get your hopes up too high. The snow, if it does come, might not stick around too long with temperatures set to rise throughout the day on Tuesday, according to Météo France.

Drivers in the Paris region are warned to be aware of black ice on the roads.

There could also be the first snow of the season in parts of eastern France and Burgundy.

An orange weather alert was issued for the entire Rhône department on Monday with snow and ice set to hit the region on Monday evening.

Between 1cm and 3cm of snow is forecast for Lyon and the surrounding suburbs.

Residents are advised to take care and avoid any unnecessary travel.

The wintry forecast has also come with a special safety warning for drivers.

Météo France warns that conditions “could quickly become difficult on the whole road network… The risk of accidents is high.”

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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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