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IN PHOTOS: First snowfalls of season turn northern Italy white

After months of warm and wet weather, winter has well and truly arrived in Italy with snowfall as far south as Sardinia. And more flakes are on the way.

Published: 3 December 2020 18:30 CET
IN PHOTOS: First snowfalls of season turn northern Italy white
Snow covers the village of Sassello in Liguria. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

While the Alps are already blanketed, this week even areas at lower altitude got a taste of snow.

READ ALSO: 'A different kind of Christmas': What's in Italy's new emergency decree?


The village of Sassello in Liguria. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

The first flakes of the year fell on the northern cities of Milan, Turin, Genoa, Parma and Bologna, among others, on Wednesday night.

There was even snow in the mountains near Rome and on the island of Sardinia, hundreds of kilometres further south.

Meanwhile other parts of the country have been drenched by heavy rainfall, including Venice where authorities were braced for high tides.

More snow is forecast over the coming days, especially in the north-west.


Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

Unfortunately for snow tourists, Italy's mountains look set to remain closed to skiers until at least January as the country cracks down on travel over the holidays. 

READ ALSO: Italy bans travel between towns over Christmas


Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

Winter weather words in Italian

la neve – snow

la nevicata – snowfall

i fiocchi – flakes

innevato – snow-covered

imbiancato – turned white

il gelo – ice

l'inverno – winter

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WEATHER

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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