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Italy set to sizzle as temperatures reach 40C

As if the country hasn’t sweltered enough over the past few days, it’s going to get even hotter by this weekend.

Published: 7 July 2016 13:59 CEST
Italy set to sizzle as temperatures reach 40C
There's only one thing for it: head to the nearest beach. Photo: Paolo Macorig

From Friday, forecasters say temperatures in parts of the country will creep up towards 40 degrees Celsius, lingering into next week.

A hot wind blowing over the peninsular from Africa will also intensify the heat, according to IlMeteo.it.

Taranto, a coastal city in Puglia, will feel the brunt of the heat, with temperatures reaching 40C.

There’ll be little respite elsewhere, with temperatures in the northern cities of Bologna and Verona ranging between 35C and 38C, while it will hit 36C in Florence and 34C in Rome.

Temperatures will be slightly cooler in Lombardy, Piedmont and in the eastern lower Alps.

The summer of 2016 is following much the same pattern of 2015, during which over 100 people, mostly elderly, died of heat-related illnesses.

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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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