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IN PICTURES: First snow of the winter falls on central Italy

The first flakes have fallen on the mountainous heart of Italy, and it's just gorgeous.

Published: 14 December 2018 10:55 CET
Updated: 14 December 2018 11:55 CET
IN PICTURES: First snow of the winter falls on central Italy
Snow in Chianciano Terme, near Siena in Tuscany. Photo: Comune di Chianciano Terme/Facebook

While snow has covered the peaks of the northern Alps for several weeks, central Italy, where the Apennine Mountains form the country's backbone, saw its first snow of the winter on Thursday night.

It was relatively light in Abruzzo…

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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… as well as in Umbria, where the region's villages were turned into winter wonderlands fit for a postcard.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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Parts of Le Marche got a dusting too.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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And in Tuscany, where many parts of the region woke up under a cover of white, some schools in Siena province were closed on Friday because of the snow.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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Snow was predicted to continue in the Central Apennines on Friday, while on either side of the mountains, central Italy was expecting heavy rain, and parts of Campania were on alert for storms.

While snow has so far been mostly confined to higher altitudes, earlier this week parts of the Adriatic coast in Puglia got a few flakes too. 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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