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Thunderstorms threaten southern Sweden

Sweden's meteorological office SMHI has warned that after the sunshine cometh the rain with downpours and thunder forecast for southern areas on Tuesday afternoon.

Published: 7 June 2011 09:22 CEST
Thunderstorms threaten southern Sweden

The holiday weekend witnessed record high temperatures of plus 30 degrees Celsius in Gothenburg with the remainder of the country bathed in sunshine.

But the warm weather has brought with it a build up of high energy which is forecast to bring heavy rainfall and thunder in parts of Skåne, Småland, the west coast and Vämland in southern Sweden.

Some thunder storms arrived already on Monday night with fires breaking out following lightning strikes on a farm near Malmö. The police have confirmed that no injuries have been reported.

According to the SMHI forecast, isolated thunder storms are to be expected in parts of Norrland in northern Sweden later on Tuesday.

The east coast is however set to enjoy calm, sunny weather throughout Tuesday.

The forecast for the remainder of the week remains upbeat, with temperatures of 20-25 expected in most parts throughout Wednesday.

The warm weather will remain on Thursday and Friday and even stretch into the far north, bringing with it temperatures of around 25 degrees Celsius.

By the weekend, temperatures are expected to have eased off somewhat with some risk for unstable weather and isolated thunderstorms.

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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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