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Scorchio! Spain sizzles in early summer heatwave

The mercury soared across Spain over the weekend and is set to get even hotter as the week progresses.

Published: 12 June 2017 15:03 CEST
Scorchio! Spain sizzles in early summer heatwave
A horse drinks from a fountain in Seville. Photo: AFP

Six provinces across Andalusia, Castilla La Mancha and Extremadura are on amber alert (significant risk) with temperatures expected to reach above 40C, according to predictions by state meteorogical agency AEMET:

While a further 18 provinces are on a lower level yellow alert with temperatures predicted for the mid-thirties as winds bring hot air from the Sahara across the Iberian peninsula.

With temperatures already reaching heights more usual for July and August, it’s just as well that municipal open air swimming pools are now open for the season.

READ MORE: Ten things that only happen in Spain when summer arrives

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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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