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Downpour warnings issued for Aarhus, Copenhagen… and Roskilde

The Roskilde Festival is in the area of Denmark predicted to receive heavy rain over the coming days.

Published: 28 June 2017 14:07 CEST
Downpour warnings issued for Aarhus, Copenhagen... and Roskilde
Photo: Torben Christensen/Scanpix

Rainproof footwear is also a likely necessity in other parts of the country, warns the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI).

The eastern half of the country and the northern part of Jutland can expect downpours on Thursday and Friday, according to DMI.

Between 25 and 33 millimetres of rain are predicted to fall within six hours in some parts of the country.

As much as 15 millimetres of rain could fall within half an hour during localised downpours, DMI reports.

The agency’s warning of heavy rain and downpours is effective for North Jutland, Djursland, northwest Aarhus, and swathes of western and central Jutland along with both northern and southern Zealand, Copenhagen, and the islands of Lolland, Falster and Bornholm.

It is not certain that all of these areas will be hit by the downpour, but heavy rain is possible in all of them.

The warning is in place from 2am Thursday for Zealand and 12pm Thursday for Jutland, and remains in place in both areas until Friday afternoon.

Meteorologist Søren Vallentin Jacobsen of Danish broadcaster DR said the warning was “relatively serious”.

“We have a quite unstable air mass moving from eastern Germany up over the eastern and northern part of Denmark. This is where it will be most humid and warm, and will lead to heavy rain, thunder and downpours,” Jacobsen told DR.

Thousands of people currently camping at the Roskilde Festival on Zealand could well find themselves in for a wet couple of days.

But Jacobsen said that there were no guarantees over where the downpours would actually fall.

“We don’t know whether there will be one downpour or 30, or where they will be. But there will be rain,” he said.

READ ALSO: Downpours and thunder warnings issued for Denmark

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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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