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Colder than Scotland? Spain temp drops to 2C

It is said that what goes up must come down. After sizzling through a heatwave last week parts of Spain are now shivering in temperatures as low as 2C.

Published: 20 May 2015 15:13 CEST
Colder than Scotland? Spain temp drops to 2C
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After exeriencing record heat last week – reaching an unseasonable record of 42C – temperatures are set to plummet across Spain, with the mercury falling especially low in central Spain, as well as the Pyrenees, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.

One motorist captured incredible footage of his car windscreen being smashed during a ferocious hailstorm in Murcia on Tuesday.

The provinces of Segovia, Palencia and Avila are set to experience lows of 3C, while Burgos, Soria and León will register lows of 2C.

The provinces of Huesca, Zaragoza, Tarragona and Castellón are currently on yellow alert for strong winds according to Spanish weather agency, AEMET while the islands of La Gomera, La Palma, Gran Canaria, Mallorca and Menorca are on the same alert for high waves.

Cloudy skies are expected over much of the Mediterranean coastal area, while there is a chance of showers.

Storms are forecast for eastern Catalonia, Eastern Andalusia and the northern Spanish enclave of Melilla. 

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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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