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IN PICS: Madrid transformed into winter wonderland with heaviest snowfall in decades

The first flakes began to fall late on Thursday morning as Storm Filomena swept across the peninsula leaving a rare dusting of snow on the Spanish capital.

Published: 8 January 2021 17:47 CET
IN PICS: Madrid transformed into winter wonderland with heaviest snowfall in decades
Photos: AFP

Authorities placed Madrid on the highest level of alert for freezing temperatures for the first time since the system was created in 2007 as the Met office warned Madrileños to brace for the heaviest snowfall so far this century.

By Friday afternoon, authorities closed parks across Madrid as paths became perilously icy and up to 20cm of snow was predicted, while across Spain 29 provinces were issued with weather warnings.

Ruben del Campo, a spokesman for the State Meteorological Agency AEMET said: “Perhaps we would have to go back to the snowfall of February 1984 or to that of March 1971 to find similar precedents if the forecasts we are expecting are correct.”

The mercury plummeted as Spain registered the lowest temperature ever recorded on the Iberian peninsula, of -35.8ºC in the Picos de Europa, beating the previous record of -34.1ºC registered in the Pyrenees the day before.

Here are some of the best pictures from across Madrid:

The Bear and Madroño Tree statue in Puerta del Sol


The Royal Palace


A person walking in Sabatini Gardens


Madrid's Retiro Park


Plaza Mayor


Making a snowman


Throwing snowballs

 


Shoppers in downtown Madrid.


Dogs playing in the snow in Malasaña's Plaza Dos de Mayo. Photo: Fiona Govan/The Local

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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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