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Cold and cloudy weather over Christmas

Cold and cloudy weather across most of Sweden is forecast for the Christmas period, according to the Swedish meteorological agency (SMHI).

Published: 22 December 2008 15:47 CET
Cold and cloudy weather over Christmas

Hopes of a white Christmas look in vain for residents of southern areas as dry weather and higher temperatures are forecast.

Gusty north-westerly winds, with localized hard gusts in southern Sweden, are blowing in across most of Sweden on Monday afternoon. The wind will bring with it colder temperatures across the country on Tuesday.

High pressure is expected to establish its grip over the country in the run up to Christmas with dry, cold and occasionally sunny weather as a result.

Snow falls in highland areas will slowly push east before clearing up into Tuesday morning with some snowfall expected to return sporadically throughout the week

On Christmas Eve cloudy weather will push in from the west and bring with it light snowfalls in central and northern areas and rain in the west. Temperatures will push up on Gotland and Öland and across Skåne while, temperatures are forecast to stay between minus 2-10 in other areas.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day will push the cloud northwards into the highland areas and bring with it snow falls. The remainder of the country will remain dry, with broken cloud, sunshine and cold temperatures, even in the south.

SMHI expects the weather to remain stable throughout the week and into the weekend with few changes forecast.

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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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