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Cold, wet and windy Easter for Denmark

Easter egg hunts will probably be better off kept indoors this year.

Published: 12 April 2017 12:35 CEST
Cold, wet and windy Easter for Denmark
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Low pressure over the whole country means the Easter holidays will see winter-like cold temperatures and rain.

Temperatures will not reach far over ten degrees Celsius (50°F), according to weather forecasts.

“Easter will be characterised by rain, showers and wind. The sun will peek through occasionally. The first low pressure front will pass on Wednesday and the second on Saturday,” Trine Pedersen, duty meteorologist with the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI), told newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

A Polar front reaching over Denmark is the cause of the dreary weather, says DMI.

“When the Polar front is south of Denmark and we are above it, there weather for us is cold and windy and we are typically visited regularly by fronts with rainy weather. That is exactly how the weather has decided to act in the coming days,” wrote DMI on its website.

Even on the driest days – Good Friday and Easter Monday – temperatures will struggle to reach double figures, writes DMI.

Thursday will bring a little sun, but also rain and even hail. Temperatures will range from eight to 11 degrees (48-52°F) with a hard westerly wind, reports Jyllands-Posten.

Good Friday will start dry with showers coming later in the day.

Drabber weather still will arrive Saturday, with more rain and temperatures reach as far down as five degrees Celsius (41°F).

“It will probably be the worst day of Easter,” Pedersen said.

A little more sun – but again rain and hail – will accompany the Easter bunny on Sunday, if possible thunder storms don’t scare it off.

Monday will again feel cool at between five and eight degrees Celsius (41-46°F).

“The day will again bring showers with hail or sleet supplemented with a bit of sun,” said Pedersen.

The Easter holiday period will end with sub-zero temperatures of -4°C (25°F) on Monday night.

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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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