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European snow storms set to hit Sweden

Storms which have wreaked havoc across Britain and mainland Europe in recent days is set to hit southern Sweden on Tuesday. Snowfalls and wintry conditions are forecast across the country for at least a week, according to the Swedish meteorological agency (SMHI).

Published: 10 February 2009 13:13 CET
European snow storms set to hit Sweden

At least 600,000 households in northern France have experienced power cuts and many airports have been closed to traffic. Furthermore heavy rains have caused flooding in Britain on the back of the record snow falls across the country last week.

The intensive low pressure front is pushing north from the European continent and snowfalls and easterly winds are forecast in many southern and eastern areas of Sweden on Tuesday, according to SMHI.

Heavy snowfalls can be expected to continue until at least the weekend, and temperatures are set to plunge to below zero in most areas of Sweden as the winter announces its belated arrival.

But cometh the cold cometh the sunshine and much of Sweden will be bathed in bright blue skies and sunshine in the week ahead.

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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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