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Madrid resident turns snowy rooftop into silent movie cinema

An ingenious Madrid silent film fan projected a Charlie Chaplin classic onto a snowy rooftop much to the delight of his neighbours.

Published: 13 January 2021 16:29 CET
Madrid resident turns snowy rooftop into silent movie cinema
Publicity shot from Charlie Chaplin's The Kid. Photo: Wikipedia Commons

The unidentified resident of a street in central Madrid located near Atocha station projected the Charlie Chaplin 1921 classic The Kid onto a rooftop opposite his building.

The film which sees a tramp take in a orphaned Street child was shown in two sittings on Monday, projected through a window onto the rooftop opposite.

It was recorded by a neighbour, Manuel Morales, a journalist at El Pais who posted a video of the cinematic event on Twitter.

At the weekend Madrileños enjoyed the heaviest snowfall in more than fifty years with some residents taking advantage of the opportunity to ski across the capital, while others staged snowball fights or used makeshift toboggans to sledge down snowy slopes.

But after Storm Filomena passed, a cold front brought plummeting temperatures that has left conditions perilous.

Snow up to 50 cms deep has turned into immoveable blocks of ice and made both driving on uncleared roads and walking on icy sidewalks highly dangerous.

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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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