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IN PHOTOS: First snowfalls of season turn northern Italy white

After months of warm and wet weather, winter has well and truly arrived in Italy with snowfall as far south as Sardinia. And more flakes are on the way.

Published: 3 December 2020 18:30 CET
IN PHOTOS: First snowfalls of season turn northern Italy white
Snow covers the village of Sassello in Liguria. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

While the Alps are already blanketed, this week even areas at lower altitude got a taste of snow.

READ ALSO: 'A different kind of Christmas': What's in Italy's new emergency decree?


The village of Sassello in Liguria. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

The first flakes of the year fell on the northern cities of Milan, Turin, Genoa, Parma and Bologna, among others, on Wednesday night.

There was even snow in the mountains near Rome and on the island of Sardinia, hundreds of kilometres further south.

Meanwhile other parts of the country have been drenched by heavy rainfall, including Venice where authorities were braced for high tides.

More snow is forecast over the coming days, especially in the north-west.


Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

Unfortunately for snow tourists, Italy's mountains look set to remain closed to skiers until at least January as the country cracks down on travel over the holidays. 

READ ALSO: Italy bans travel between towns over Christmas


Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP

Winter weather words in Italian

la neve – snow

la nevicata – snowfall

i fiocchi – flakes

innevato – snow-covered

imbiancato – turned white

il gelo – ice

l'inverno – winter

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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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