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LIGHTNING

Man struck by lightning at Copenhagen Airport

A man was hit by lightning at Copenhagen Airport during Wednesday night’s thunderstorm.

Published: 13 June 2019 09:51 CEST
Man struck by lightning at Copenhagen Airport
A 2004 file photo of a lightning strike over Copenhagen. Photo: Kristian Juul Pedersen / Ritzau Scanpix

The 58-year-old man is an employee at the airport, Copenhagen Police duty officer Michael Andersen confirmed.

“(The lightning strike) happened inside the airport perimeter,” Andersen said.

Police were informed of the incident at 10:25pm on Wednesday.

The Copenhagen Airport worker was taken to the city’s Rigshospitalet, where he remained admitted at 3am on Thursday.

“Reports from the hospital say his life is not in danger at the present time,” Andersen said.

Denmark was hit by thunderstorms in several areas throughout Wednesday evening.

“At 10:45 pm, there are thunderstorms in Vallenbæk and Ishøj with 16.8 and 15.4 millimetres of rain respectively,” meteorological agency DMI tweeted.

Over 1,000 bolts of lightning had been recorded by 10pm, newspaper BT reported.

In the Central and West Jutland police district, two buildings caught fire after being hit by lightning during the storm.

Two weather-related traffic incidents on the Holbæk motorway near Copenhagen were also confirmed by West Copenhagen police.

Nobody was injured in the accidents, duty officer Morten Steen said.

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WEATHER

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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