The heat is returning: Here is DMI’s summer forecast

According to DMI, the temperature will climb to around 28 degrees in weeks 29 and 30, when there will be many hours of sunshine.

The weather will offer sunshine and rising temperatures from the latter half of July and into August.

This is the sunny message from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in a new monthly forecast.

Week 28 opens a bit unsettled with clouds, cities and ‘controlled’ temperatures between 17 and 22 degrees during the day.

In the latter half of July, however, the summer heat returns in earnest with lots of sunshine and temperatures up to 28 degrees.

In addition, the amount of precipitation will be somewhat below normal for the season, it says.

Nationally, total precipitation of between two and eight millimeters is expected throughout week 30, which extends from July 21 to July 28.

“It is still too early to say how long the relatively stable summer weather will last, but so far the stable weather patterns appear to hold into August, interrupted only by a few days of rain or showers and falling temperatures,” DMI writes in the forecast.

In the longer term, DMI assesses that there will be no significant changes in the so-called ‘pressure patterns’ when July turns into August.

Therefore, the forecast is that August will begin as July ends – with warm and dry weather interrupted only by short sequences of rain showers.

Southern Europe hit by heat wave

Even higher temperatures currently have a tight grip on several countries in Southern Europe.

Both Spain and Portugal have recorded record high temperatures for June, and the heat continues on the first day of July.

Over the weekend, 46 degrees were measured in the town of El Granado in the province of Huelva in southwestern Spain.

Several places in France measured temperatures above 40 degrees on Tuesday.

This has resulted, among other things, in the top of the Eiffel Tower being closed since Monday and will remain so until Wednesday due to the heat wave.

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