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Flood warnings issued for southern France with violent storms forecast

Flood warnings have been issued for southern France as torrential rainfall and thunderstorms are forecast.

Published: 21 October 2019 16:23 CEST
Flood warnings issued for southern France with violent storms forecast
The storm is predicted to strike along the Mediterranean cost. Photo: AFP

The Mediterranean coast of France is predicted to be hardest hit, with a month's worth of rain expected withing 48 hours in some areas.

Forecast to hit from around 6am on Tuesday, the very heavy rainfall will be concentrated along the coast and three départements – Aude, Hérault and Pyrénées-Orientales – have been placed on orange alert.

French weather forecaster Météo France said: “The intense rainstorms will begin on Tuesday morning in the Pyrenees and off the coast, and will then affect the three départments in the morning.

“There will be violent localised thunderstorms generating strong rainfall of around 30 to 50 mm in a short time, 50 to 100 mm in a few hours.

“Hail and strong wind gusts are expected.
 
 
 
“After dying down, a new intense rainstorm organisation is expected in these same départments overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday.
 
“The total rainfall expected over the entire episode is around 100 to 150 mm overall, with 200 to 250 mm, or even more, in some areas.”
 
Some localised flooding is expected and driving conditions are likely to be extremely difficult during the storms.
 
The rains, although less intense, will hit most of southern and central France over the next two days.
 
 
 

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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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