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France braces for ‘very hot week’ as temperatures set to hit 40C

Monday kicked off what was predicted to be an extremely hot week in France, with some areas in the south seeing temperatures "approaching July records," according to Météo France.

Published: 27 July 2020 12:22 CEST
France braces for 'very hot week' as temperatures set to hit 40C
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The national weather agency warned of a “very strong heat” hitting the whole country on Monday, as France entered one of the hottest weeks this summer.

“The warmest temperatures locally in the southwest could approach monthly July records,” Météo France stated on their website.
 
Cities like Bordeaux and Lyon were predicted to see thermometers spiking as high as 34C and 37C respectively on Monday afternoon, while Paris would get 32C.

Most of the northern half of the mainland would see temperatures up to or above 30C, while some local areas in the south would get 40C in the afternoon.

 
“Locally 40C in Midi-Pyrénées,” the Méteo France warned inhabitants of the southern Occitanie département.
 
 
The agency said temperatures would cool off slightly on Tuesday and Wednesday in most of the country, except in the southeast where “it will be very hot all week”, with several areas getting up to 35C.
 
Thursday spells another surge in temperatures on a nationwide basis, and Friday “could be even hotter than Monday” for the entire country, according to Météo France.

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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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