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Denmark to swelter in summer heat wave from Thursday: DMI

Large swathes of Denmark, including the capital Copenhagen will be basking in tropical temperatures of around 30C on Thursday and Friday as the country enjoys the first heat wave of the summer.

Published: 14 June 2021 18:33 CEST
Denmark to swelter in summer heat wave from Thursday: DMI
Sunbathers in Copenhagen enjoy a heatwave at start of August in 2020. Photo: Claus Bech/Ritzau Scanpix

According to a forecast from the Danish Metereological Institute (DMI), a front of hot air will move over Denmark on Wednesday evening.

“The combination of the warm air and largely cloudless weather will give rise to heatwaves in parts of the southern and eastern areas of the country,” predicted meteorologist Lars Holtmann.

Here you can see the heat coming north from Africa. Source: DMI

According to the broadcaster TV2, if 30C temperatures are recorded on Thursday, it will be the earliest so-called “tropical day” in 14 years. A tropical day is defined as a day when 30C is recorded somewhere in Denmark. 

The broadcaster also predicted that there might be “tropical nights”, defined as a night when the temperature does not fall below 20C.

The hot spell is expected to climax in thunderstorms over the weekend, with cooler weather resuming next week. 

“The collision of the cooler air from the west and the very hot air mass from the east provides favourable conditions for strong thunderstorms to form,” TV2 explained. “Right now, the greatest risk is in Jutland.”

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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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