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Hot hot hot: Temperatures up to 42C in Spanish heatwave

Spanish weathermen are warning of a continued heatwave starting on Friday and going into the weekend, with temperatures reaching 42C in some parts.

Published: 16 June 2017 09:47 CEST
Hot hot hot: Temperatures up to 42C in Spanish heatwave
File photo of a woman with a fan in Seville. Photo: Cristina Quicler/AFP

Get out your abanico, because this weekend is set to be a scorcher, according to Spanish weather service Aemet.

Starting on Friday, the mercury is set to rise to 40C and above, from Granada in the south, to Toledo in central Spain, up to Lleida in the northeast. Badajoz, Córdoba and Seville will all see their thermometers reach 42C over the course of the day.

In total, 15 provinces are on orange alert – meaning significant risk – for high temperatures.

But it won’t be all sunshine: Storms are set to hit the area around Jaén and Granada, as well as around Salamanca and in Aragón.

Weather warnings for high temperatures on Friday:

Aemet also warned on Twitter that the risk of forest fires is very high, mainly in the south, northeast and northwest.

On Saturday, the country will be mostly sunny and hot, though parts of Castile and León as well as Andalusia will still have rain.

Badajoz, Córdoba and Seville will again be sweating in 42C heat.

Aemet prediction for Saturday:

Sunday is also set to have high temperatures in the interior of the peninsula, especially in the valleys of Guadalquivir, Guadiana and Tajo.

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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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