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Before and after pictures show extent of River Seine floods in Paris

The Seine in Paris has been flooding for days and is set to reach a peak of 6.2 metres on Saturday. Here's a look at the the river before and after the floods hit the French capital.

Published: 29 January 2018 13:33 CET
Before and after pictures show extent of River Seine floods in Paris
Hundreds of residents in the city have been evacuated as a precaution while roads and paths along the river have long been closed off.
 
River traffic has long been halted on the Seine, which is normally packed with tour boats and owners of the city's picturesque houseboats worry their vessels might be lifted onto the quais.
 
The RER C train line which runs alongside the river has been suspended in the central section.
 
Here's a look at just how bad it is. 

The tree at the end of the Square du Vert Galant. Before:

Photo: WikiCommons

After:

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The Zouave statue, traditionally used as a gauge to see how high the river is. Before:

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The peniche boats along the river. Before:

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Pont de Grenelle. Before:

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The river banks near the Eiffel Tower. Before:

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The Passerelle Leopold-Sedar-Senghoe. Before:

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The Square du Vert-Galant. Before:

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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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