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Early summer hot spell to hit Spain in time for sanctioned weekend walks

Across Spain people who have been in lockdown since March 14th are keenly anticipating the first sanctioned walks that they can make in the open-air this weekend.

Published: 29 April 2020 15:08 CEST
Early summer hot spell to hit Spain in time for sanctioned weekend walks
Temperatures will hit the mid-30C over the weekend. Photo Eltiempo.es

Dog owners have been allowed to leave the house to take their pets for short necessary walks and children were only released for the first time last Sunday but May 2nd is the day when restrictions will be lifted to allow adults outside to stretch their legs.

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The first outings outdoors, apart from those trips to buy essential supplies or seek medical care, coincide with a rise in temperatures that will see some parts of Spain sizzle in unusually warm weather for the time of year.

 

This video by Eltiempo.es shows the mass of warm that will sweep in from the west that will see much of Spain see temperatures above 25C reaching 36C in the Guadalquivir Valley.

 

Rubén del Campo, the spokesman for Aemet said that after several months marked by persistent wet and rainy weather, the change will come with the start of May.

But he warned people to be careful when they went outside for the first time in more than six weeks because they wouldn’t be used to the sun or high temperatures. “The sun burns even at midday,” he warned.

 

 

 

 

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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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