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Denmark has coldest April night this century

Early Wednesday morning saw the coldest April temperatures in Denmark since 1997.

Published: 19 April 2017 08:22 CEST
Denmark has coldest April night this century
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And there is still no sign of spring yet, say meteorologists.

“We have touched on a few records during the night,” duty meteorologist Trine Pedersen of the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) told newspaper Politiken.

Temperatures at Karup Airport in central Jutland were recorded at -6°C (21.2°F), reports TV2 – the coldest April morning this century.

Not since 1997 has more than six degrees below zero been recorded in Denmark during the fourth month of the year, according to TV2.

Pedersen said that a chill of -4.7°C (23.5°F) was measured at Karup at 7am on Wednesday, meaning frost on car windscreens and bicycle seats as well as risk of icy roads.

Similar icy conditions were also noted by DMI on Tuesday morning.

Still, cold air over Denmark from the north and a high pressure zone are the cause of the exceptionally cold April weather, reports Politiken.

DMI reported on Sunday that the first half of Spring (from March 1st to April 15th) had in fact been slightly warmer than average, and record warm temperatures were also recorded last month.

Rainfall during March and the first half of June was also slightly above normal levels, although the period was still relatively dry overall, wrote DMI on its website.

Wednesday night is also likely to bring frost but will be slightly milder than Tuesday, Pedersen told Politiken.

“Wind will turn and come from the west, which will make weather slightly milder,” she said.

But wind from the north west means that warmer weather is still some way off.

“It will be cool and windy again in the immediate future,” Pedersen said.

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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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