Sweden Julstormen Urd hit western and southern Sweden during the night to Tuesday. On the coast came the winds up in hurricane-force. Several bridges were closed and streets were flooded. – There was a big storm, ” says Maria Hjalmarsson on the Foreca.
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the Winds have now subsided but during the Monday evening and during the night it blew as much as hurricane force in the villages in some places.
” It was the most 33.8 metres per second in the villages of the Area yesterday evening. It is hurricane force, so it is considerably windy. Then, it is difficult to stand upright when it’s blowing so much, ” says Maria Hjalmarsson, who is the meteorologist at the weather service Foreca, to Bohusläningen.
Was it as windy as expected?
- Yes this was a real storm and I think that it has followed the forecast, ” says Maria Hjalmarsson.
the Swedish meteorological and hydrological institute issued a class 2 warning for winds in large parts of the southwest and southern Sweden for the night on Tuesday. The öresund bridge to Denmark and the älvsborg bridge in Gothenburg was closed of for car traffic. Train and boat services were cancelled in many places while air traffic was not affected significantly.
During the night have it blown up to 30 feet per second in parts of the country, thousands of households have been without electricity, and some rivers have overflowed.
But in large was Urd not as severe as predicted. We 03-time began SMHI gradually downgrade the warnings about the winds.
Our impression is that it has been a bit quieter than what we said, ” Eva Strandberg, duty meteorologist at SMHI, to news agency TT.
the Bridges were closed
At 18, said the Dmv that it was no longer safe to operate the älvsborg bridge.
Also ^ was closed completely for traffic at the 20-time, but it opened again at 23. The öresund bridge was also closed to traffic.
All the bridges opened again in the morning.
Floods
in several places in Gothenburg, there have been reports about the floods. It has been primarily streets and driveways in the vicinity of water to which has been swamped, including in Eriksberg, Lindholmen, the Rock, Gårda, but also in the centre of Gothenburg.
At Järntorget has several källarlokaler been swamped. GP met Sadik Simmo who is the owner of spelcaféet Game Online which is located at the Pusterviksgatan.
There came a guy and said that there was a flood a short distance away and there was risk that it would come here. When I opened the door and get gushed water. So it was just to get everybody out, Emergency services said they could not do something, but we had to call in the family, ” he says.
He continued:
Jokes aside, this could have ended much worse. Now we managed to save most of the technology. We may hope that it will not be too much damage, ” said Sadik Simmo, the owner of the Game Online.
Emergency services in Storgöteborg alerted, among other things, if the water-filled basement and premises. But not where any personal injury.
“Around midnight we can sum up that the storm Urd decreased in strength and that the load is not as large as we expected, we had prepared the organization at a higher load,” said chief of staff Thomas Andersson in a press release.
Pulls in over Gotland
the Storm reached its peak at 02-time and then fizzle. It is no longer new in Bohuslän, Göteborg and Halland and Kronoberg counties.
02.40 opened Öresund bridge, but with a warning for strong winds and a maximum speed of 50 kilometers an hour. The restriction is expected to continue to 07.30. The älvsborg bridge was opened for traffic at 03-time.
the Grade 2 alert for the stormbyarna is now only in Skåne. The forecast is that the warning will remain until 05-the time. Later on Tuesday, the draws tempest in a northeasterly direction.
- It will continue to blow over the island of Gotland, Dalarna and parts of southern Norrland, ” says Eva Strandberg.
Scaffold collapsed and trees fall
Already at 11:30-the time registered by the police in the West the first report can be related to the storm. Then raged a scaffold in the centre of Gothenburg.
– A scaffold that has been mounted against a property on Viktor Rydbergsgatan have plummeted, probably because of the hard wind, confirms the police press officer Stefan Gustafsson.
the Scaffolding landed on the roadway. Responsible for position will that fix the problem and no one must have been damaged in the accident.
No major problems in the air traffic
Even if the winds blows strongly, nothing that affected air traffic from the Airport in any major scale. Some minor delays have occurred, but it has not been due to the storm Urd, but because of other reasons.
– A flight between Gothenburg and Oslo was cancelled, but it was the airline, Wideroes decision and we do not know the exact reason for it, except that it was not for reasons of security, ” says Annika Persson Kvarnbergs, press officer at Swedavia.
During the night, however, there have been reports to the GP about a Lufthansaflyg has been to turn after two unsuccessful attempts to land at Landvetter. The plane should have landed in Norway instead.
The last flight leave from gothenburg Landvetter airport just after 22:00 and an hour later, at 23:00, it is the last planet for the evening.
Defence sport utility vehicles will be called in
When the community is in need of additional support can the armed Forces are called in. During the morning held samverkanskonferenser to identify areas in Sweden that will be in need of help by reason of the storm, but before speaking of the need are already areas asked for reinforcement.
Halland county has requested assistance in the form of transport resources to help home care. Now we have cars that stand in readiness to help home care, confirms Jesper Tengroth, press officer at the Swedish armed Forces for the GP on Monday morning.
Cancellation of trains on many routes
the Swedish transport administration announced that it would shut down a number of railways from Monday night to Tuesday with the occasion of the storm Urd. Traffic was shut down because the trees can fall down over the contact wires and make tågbanorna to be without power.
– Safety always comes first, ” says the Swedish transport administration’s press officer Bengt Olsson. We do not want to risk that travelers will be sitting on a good cold train in the middle of winter. Now, we follow the trends very closely and have raised our level of preparedness.
On Tuesday morning, start the inspection of the current tågbanorna to see how they have been affected by the strong winds. It is only when this inspection and any repairs carried out, as the traffic can gradually start again. Rail passengers are advised to contact the respective train company for information on when the traffic starts again at the current tågbanorna.
Current information on conditions on road and rail is available on the traffic information the Swedish transport administration’s website. Way railway companies are managed has information on ersättningstrafik.
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