Tuesday, December 27, 2016

The storm Urd lighter than expected.

Julstormen Urd was calmer than feared. But around 2 000 households were on Tuesday morning still without power in the Region. Rail traffic resumed at several places in western Sweden in the morning but on some routes in Skåne open courses only at 15-time.

Strandvägen in Helsingborg were flooded in connection with the Urds rampage.Image: Bjorn Lindgren/TT

It is no longer new in Bohuslän, Göteborg and Halland. SMHI has downgraded to a class 1-warning for very strong winds. A class 1 warning for a very harsh gusts of wind also consists in Skåne.

“It’s still very windy in the Region,” says Tobias Halmblad, duty meteorologist at SMHI, sweden.

the Incidents in connection with the storm count. The police in stormdrabbade Skåne count to 52 events during the night and morning.

– But there has not been any particularly serious events, ” says Fredrik Bratt, presskommunikatör at the police station in the southern region.

In Gothenburg drove several cars during the evening fixed at Gullbergs Strandgata, due to floods. On Tuesday morning, got stuck a motorist in Uddevalla in a body of water and could not get out of the car. According to police, the shocked driver helped out of the vehicle unharmed.

the Storm trees and power lines have caused some problems in the traffic. Four railway lines in Skåne are still waiting for trädsäkras.

in Addition, 2,000 households on Tuesday morning still without power around the Region, of which about half in southern sweden. According to Johan Aspegren, presskommunikatör of Eon, was the damage less severe than feared.

– It depends on that the storm was less severe but also that we have devoted a lot of work to dig down and waterproofing the wires, ” he says.

At 02.40 opened Öresund bridge for car traffic in both directions. Half an hour later also the traffic on the älvsborg bridge in Gothenburg, sweden released on and just before the 05 was opened^.

In Halmstad, raised sea levels significantly just before midnight. The water level was a tag 175 centimetres above normal and the emergency services built barriers of sandbags down at the harbour and the football stadium Example Dike, according to P4 Halland. On Twitter testified to the users to the Nissan river, overflowed.

the Night was considerably quieter than what we had predicted from the beginning. We got off the alarms and the events than what we thought, ” says Andreas Karlsson, internal command at the emergency services in Halland, sweden, to SVT News, Halland, sweden.

” We had a last meeting at 02.00 in the night with the County, the administrations been engaged in the work with the storm and the emergency services in the county of Halland. After that, we rounded we are by our staffs and since then it’s been quiet.

In Norway, which was hit hard by the storm already in the last week, decreased storm winds to gale-force winds at the 02-the time, according to the NTB.

It was on Monday night Urd began to be marked heavily in the Swedish measurement stations. When the Area was hurricane force in gusts 33.8 metres per second. The boundary of the hurricane goes on 32,7.

Both the rail and boat services were cancelled in many places in Sweden. The strong winds did not affect the traffic significantly.

the Name Urd comes from norse mythology, where she is the past goddess as spinner livstrådar for all living creatures.

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