Strong winds messed up in traffic – Dagens Industri

Strong winds messed up in traffic – Dagens Industri

Strong winds messed up in traffic

                  2014-09-27 21:23
             

The strong winds caused traffic problems in many parts of the country. Strong winds swept away trees and road signs lay on the roads.

A low pressure from the Norwegian Sea passed over northern Scandinavia on Saturday. SMHI issued several class 1 warning for very strong gusts of up to 24 meters per second in Norrland.

The wind has caused problems in many parts of northern Sweden. 18 people were on Saturday night stranded in an SJ train after it hit a tree blown down on the rails. The accident occurred at Gull Swamp in Norrbotten at 19 o’clock. But according to Marie Hofberg, Communications at SJ, the mood on the train to be good.

It’s not cold on the train and there is backup power, she says.

Transport Administration was at 21 o’clock on way out to the site to let the service. Possibly the passengers, who are on their way from Lulea to Stockholm, be evacuated.

No other trains will be affected by tågkrocken.

closed roads in Norway

Shortly before noon and got the emergency vägoperatören NCC snatch out along the E45, where several fallen trees had settled over the road between Storuman and Wilhelmina.

On the Norwegian side of the border also asked weather problems. Several roads in the mountain pass in the southern parts of the mountain was closed to traffic and the Norwegian police warned of difficult conditions. In northern Norway had several ferry lines to set up the traffic.

Also along the Swedish coast and on Lake Vänern freshened winds in sharply.

Trees behind the curve

According Lovisa Andersson , meteorologist at SMHI gale warnings were issued for the day for most waters. In Östergötland police took during the day received multiple alarms on trees that had fallen and blocked roads. The winds did not reach the warning level, but fierce gusts of up to 18 meters per second drug still brings a number of signs that disrupted traffic.

If you go to smaller and curvy roads should be extra vigilant, it can be trees over the road around the next bend, says Lars-Göran Nilseryd, duty officer at the police in Östergötland.

According to police länskommunikationscentral the Transport Administration has been heavily burdened by the weather.

My impression is that it is more widespread problem than what we get in and it will take time to fix, says Lars-Göran Nilseryd.

Thousands without power in the North

On Saturday night reported eljättarna Vattenfall and Eon 4 total 596 without power customers in Jämtland, Västerbotten, SWE and Norrbotten.

Just in Dorotea’s most nearly 5000 EON customers were without power during the afternoon

For our part, we do not believe it is coupled to the weather, but a disturbance in a region network station. It is something that is broken. We thought it was solved, but I just got the information that there is a break again, says Eon Communications Ann Nina Finne.