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IN PICTURES: First snow of the winter falls on central Italy

The first flakes have fallen on the mountainous heart of Italy, and it's just gorgeous.

Published: 14 December 2018 10:55 CET
Updated: 14 December 2018 11:55 CET
IN PICTURES: First snow of the winter falls on central Italy
Snow in Chianciano Terme, near Siena in Tuscany. Photo: Comune di Chianciano Terme/Facebook

While snow has covered the peaks of the northern Alps for several weeks, central Italy, where the Apennine Mountains form the country's backbone, saw its first snow of the winter on Thursday night.

It was relatively light in Abruzzo…

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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… as well as in Umbria, where the region's villages were turned into winter wonderlands fit for a postcard.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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Parts of Le Marche got a dusting too.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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And in Tuscany, where many parts of the region woke up under a cover of white, some schools in Siena province were closed on Friday because of the snow.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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Snow was predicted to continue in the Central Apennines on Friday, while on either side of the mountains, central Italy was expecting heavy rain, and parts of Campania were on alert for storms.

While snow has so far been mostly confined to higher altitudes, earlier this week parts of the Adriatic coast in Puglia got a few flakes too. 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 

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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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