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Denmark equals record for warmest winter day

The highest-ever winter temperature recorded in Denmark was equalled on Tuesday.

Published: 26 February 2019 16:51 CET
Denmark equals record for warmest winter day
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A temperature of 15.8 degrees Celsius was measured at Tirstrup north of Aarhus, TV2 reported, while national meteorological agency DMI tweeted that a 29-year-old record had been matched.

The 15.8°C represents the warmest weather recorded in February since records began in 1873, equalling the existing record measurement, which was made in Copenhagen in 1990.

It is also higher than any temperature ever logged in Denmark during December or January, making it officially the joint-warmest winter day on record.

The next-highest winter temperatures in the Danish history books are 15.5°C in 1959 and 15.1°C in 2012.

Fog early this morning was quickly dried away by emerging sunshine, resulting in an unseasonably warm day.

Light winds and exceptionally warm air moving across Denmark from the west are reported by TV2 to be underlying factors in the record-equalling winter weather.

READ ALSO: First stork of the year lands in Denmark

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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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