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Spain clocks up wettest March on record

Spain notched up its rainiest March on record last month and the high water levels of many of the country's rivers are continuing to cause problems around the country.

Spain clocks up wettest March on record
Rivers all over Spain have broken their banks in recent weeks. Photo: Mike Young
Forecasters are predicting less rain on Tuesday but the high water level of many of Spain's rivers is continuing to cause serious problems.
 
The current situation is most difficult along the River Duero, especially where it passes through the provinces of Zamora and Valladolid.
 
In Castilla-Leon, water levels should be more or less stable in the next few days, according to José Valín of the Hydrological Confederation of the Duero.
 
"This depends on rainfall over the course of this week," Valín was cited as saying by national broadcaster RTVE.
 
A travel advisory issued on Monday warned of flooding affecting nearly all of Spain's river basins.
 
Also on Monday, a motorist and a truck driver died when a bridge collapsed in central Spain following torrential rains, regional officials said.

 
The collapse in Fuencaliente, northeast of Cordoba in  Castile-La Mancha province, caused a car and a truck to plunge into the Yeguas River, they said.
 
The driver of the car was aged 23, the officials said, without stating the age of the truck driver.
 
On Saturday, a cyclist died near the Colemenar in Madrid's sierra.
 
Authorities say that he probably drowned when he attempted to cross a swollen stream on his bicycle. 
 
In the Sierra de Alcaraz in Albacete, meanwhile, 25 people were stranded at a campground because of a rising Mundo River which blocked the only access to the facility.

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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.

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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