The British authorities have declared a state of national crisis in the face of the heat wave that hits during the weekend. In Norway, it will also be much warmer at the beginning of next week.
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Monday and Tuesday next week, it is reported 41 degrees according to national health authorities in the country. The warmest areas are expected to be central and eastern parts of England.
A red alert has been issued. This could be the consequences of the heat wave, according to the BBC:
- Major health challenges, which can include serious illness and death.
- Adjustment of working life and daily routines.
- Danger of technical equipment failure.
- Increased risk as more people seek out sea and water.
- Delays and cancellations in the transport and travel sectors and on the roads.
In Spain, 84 deaths have now been recorded which can be attributed to the extremely high temperatures in the first three days of the second heat wave that hit the country on Sunday last week, according to The country. In the previous heat wave, between 11 and 18 June, 700 people died as a result of that heat, according to Spanish health authorities.
– Up to 30 degrees in Norway
A spokesman for The Met Office, the UK’s response to the Meteorological Institute, said The Guardian that the heat wave is “unprecedented” and means that they have not experienced anything similar in the UK before. The spokesperson asks people to prepare as if there were a storm coming and change their plans accordingly.
In Norway, we will also have the effect of the hot air wave.
– We get rising temperatures in Norway on Tuesday and Wednesday of the week, says Ina Ynnesdal, meteorologist on duty in Storm Geo to VG.
According to the meteorologist, Western Norway will have 20–25 degrees, while Eastern Norway and Southern Norway will have temperatures from 25 to 30 degrees. Trøndelag will also notice the hot air wave and will get in excess of 20 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday, while northern Norway will have rising temperatures of around 20 degrees on Thursday.
This is due to hot air coming up from North Africa in connection with a high pressure and it has led to a heat wave in Southern Europe this week. The warm air is now moving north towards the British Isles, where the temperature will rise sharply this weekend and at the beginning of next week.
– Then the hot air will move east towards Central Europe and southern Scandinavia, she says.
The high pressure is still down on the continent and there is still a lot of changing weather throughout the country,
Monday can be very humid, especially in the west and north while the south and east are more sheltered and do not get as much precipitation, but it will be cloudy here.
Wet in the North
Finnmark gets the worst been.
– It gets wet with a big wind. I would take out both a rain jacket, southwest and rain hat, says meteorologist on duty Eirin Walstad Ristesund at the Meteorological Institute.
Some areas in Finnmark have flood danger warnings and can envisage large amounts of rain this weekend.
– We have a strange situation where the low pressures go the wrong way, and bring a lot of precipitation from the east. Therefore, we also see that places where they usually do not have as much precipitation now experience a lot of rain.
Uncertain going forward
After the weekend, however, there will be a little more similar summer weather in the north. And on Tuesday and Wednesday the country we get the greatest effect of the hot air coming in from the south.
– How will the weather be towards next weekend?
– It is still weak low pressures that dominate and there is no clear situation but the temperatures will probably drop a little towards the weekend, says Ynnesdal.
She thinks it is uncertain whether the high pressure that is now over Ireland will eventually come in over us or stay where it is.
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