Week starts with weather warnings with sun forecast from Thursday
According to Mette Zhang, on-duty meteorologist at Danish weather agency DMI, this week will start off rainy and windy, with weather warnings in place on Monday for parts of the Jutland coast.
Later in the week, around Thursday, things are set to pick up, with a high pressure front moving in over the country to "stabilise the weather", she said.
"That means there will be more space for sun, definitely less wind and less rainfall."
She warned that there could be some fog on Wednesday night and Thursday night, and clear weather means there could be night frosts.
"Maybe we might approach freezing on Thursday night. Friday night looks even colder. It smells like night frosts," she said.
There are a few warnings in place for high water levels in central parts of Jutland's west coast, lasting until Monday afternoon, with parts of Limfjorden under a weather warning until Monday evening.
Danish vocabulary: et højtryk – a high pressure front
Copenhagen Metro not suitable as bomb shelters without renovations
Copenhagen's metro stations cannot be used as bomb shelters in their current state, public broadcaster DR reports, based on emails between the company responsible for the metro, Metroselskabet, and Copenhagen city council, obtained via a freedom of information request.
Back in July last year, Danish newspaper Berlingske reported that Metroselskabet would investigate the possibility of using metro stations as shelters, taking inspiration from cities in Ukraine which have done so.
According to emails seen by DR, Copenhagen's stations are not suitable for a few reasons – some of them have skylights which could splinter, and there are issues with ventilation and access to toilets.
The company did, however, say that some stations could be used as temporary protection for a small number of passengers already in the metro.
"That's not the same as turning them into bomb shelters," the email reads.
A bomb shelter or beskyttelsesrum is defined as an extra strong room or area which protects people from air attacks.
There are a total of 44 metro stations in Copenhagen, 30 of which are underground.
Danish vocabulary: beskyttelsesrum – bomb shelter
Liberal leader warns party 'vote with me or leave'
Troels Lund Poulsen, leader of the right-wing Liberal Party, has said that he is ready to exclude members of the party who vote against the party line, after an extraordinary party meeting held on Sunday.
"I hope we don't get that far," he told TV 2 after the meeting. "I hope that the parliamentary group take the fact that we need stability very seriously."
"But if they don't follow what the majority has to vote for in our parliamentary group, the consequence of that will be that they are not part of our parliamentary group."
A controversial fertiliser law unpopular with rural Liberal voters led five of the Liberals' 18 MPs to vote against the party line when it was put to parliament back in September.
One of the five MPs voting against the party line, Søren Gade, announced just over a week ago that he is leaving parliament as a result of the line taken by Liberal leadership to support the law.
At the time the rebellion occurred, Lund Poulsen said that he chose to accept disagreements within the party. Now, however, he has said the party needs to vote as a single unit on future votes, and that he will not "lead a parliamentary group which votes both east and west."
Danish vocabulary: folketingsgruppe – parliamentary group
Danish Resilience Agency warns companies to investigate systems after data leaks
This weekend, the Danish Resilience Agency sent a message to Danish authorities and companies to investigate their systems and limit risks that unauthorised people could gain access to protected data.
This includes, the Confederation of Danish Industry reports, far more systems than just those handling Denmark's personal numbers, CPR numbers.
It says that any systems which provide personal data such as names or addresses through a CPR number, a member number or another identification number.
Denmark's CPR system was hacked at the beginning of October, with 8.8 million numbers leaked, and since then the country has seen a number of high-profile leaks. This includes Copenhagen University, which on Friday announced that the details of around 525,000 people had been leaked, as well as phone company 3 Danmark, which warned that hackers may have been able to access the names and addresses of around 400,000 customers.
Jeppe Engell, cyber security expert at the Confederation of Danish Industry, said that companies should not just check who has access to these systems, but also how that access is used.
This could, he said, include limiting the number of searches companies are allowed to make at one time, or highlighting any suspicious searches.
Danish vocabulary: at undersøge – to investigate
With reporting from Ritzau
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