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Winter is coming back: Cold front sweeps across Spain

A cold front is set to sweep across Spain from the north bringing fierce winds, torrential rain or snow in some places.

Published: 5 March 2019 16:52 CET
Winter is coming back: Cold front sweeps across Spain
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Spain’s state weather agency (AEMET) has issued weather warnings across much of the peninsula for Wednesday and severe warnings along the northern Atlantic coast as high seas are set to batter the coast from Galicia to the Basque Country.

For almost a fortnight the nation has been basking in unseasonably warm conditions with temperatures an average 15 degrees higher than is typical for this time of year.

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But from Tuesday until at least the end of the week the cold wintry weather will return, bringing conditions that are considered more normal for early March.

Strong winds are expected to reach 100km in mountainous regions of the north of Spain and temperatures are even expected to drop along the Mediterranean coast.

Firefighters are still tackling dozens of wildfires which have broken out between Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country. Though the wind will pose a problem, the promise of rain could help bring the fires under control. 

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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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