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Violent storms set to lash central and southern France

Large parts of central and southern France have been placed on alert with violent storms set to batter swathes of the country.

Published: 19 July 2017 13:34 CEST
Violent storms set to lash central and southern France
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France is bracing itself for more violent storms as 15 departments in central and southern parts of the country are placed on orange alert by national weather agency Meteo France. 
 
The 15 departments placed on orange alert – the second highest warning level the agency issues which urges the public to be “very vigilant” – are Allier, Ariège, Aveyron, Cantal, Corrèze, Creuse, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Loire, Haute-Loire, Lot, Puy-de-Dôme, Hautes-Pyrénées, Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne.
 
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Map: Meteo France 

 

The departments where warnings were issued on Wednesday at 10.30am are currently expected to remain on alert until Thursday at 6am. 
 
The warnings come a day after violent storms hit Brittany and Normandy in the north west of France with people taking to Twitter to show the dramatic weather. 
 
 

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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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