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THE WIND THANKS: Gøran Dreyer of Øksnes Sagittarius tells the Vesterålen Online newspaper that the storm this morning took his club’s headquarters on the shooting range. Photo: Gøran Dreyer
Strong winds have led to many calls to police in Oslo on Monday. Wind and snowflakes create traffic problems in the mountains.
– There has been a lot of wind in western Norway for the last 24 hours, and this afternoon it has started to blow well in the eastern mountains. It is mainly the gusts of wind that form the strongest wind., reports meteorologist on duty Martin Granerød from the VG Meteorological Institute.
When VG talks to the meteorologist just before 6 p.m., the gusts of wind at Blindern in Oslo are around 22 meters per second.
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– Østafjells, the strongest winds were expected to arrive this afternoon. The yellow hazard warning lasts tonight, says Granerød.
The Oslo police say on Twitter that they have received many inquiries, both about fallen trees and about other elements that are loosening in the wind.
– Since morning there has been a strong wind. Until a couple of hours ago, we received many reports of everything from trees that had fallen or were about to fall to roof tiles that had loosened and jolted against the mass of the building. In short, we have received dozens of reports that the wind has caught, says operations manager Tor Gulbrandsen in the Oslo Police District at VG at 8:30 p.m.
CLOSED: E6 above Dovrefjell is one of several mountain crossings that are closed due to wind and snowflake on Monday. Photo: Webcam The Norwegian Public Highway Administration / The Norwegian Public Highway Administration
– He has closed the streets.
Operations manager Gulbrandsen says that during the day the police have worked closely with the fire service.
– When we considered that there was a danger to life and health, we sent a patrol to the scene. Some of today’s incidents have been so severe that we have sometimes had our streets closed, either by police lanes or by a patrol stopped there over time to prevent people from entering a dangerous area.
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At the 110 center in Oslo, there has just been a changing of the guard when VG calls.
– It has been a busy day for the surveillance team that has been working, with more than a hundred incidents. Many of them have been commissions for natural events that have to do with the wind. There has been everything from gaming screens like curtains and earrings, fallen trees and tiles, and other things that have come loose from buildings, says Guard Commander Glenn Gulbrandsen at 110 Central.
OPEN: E16 on Filefjell at 20:45 on Monday. Photo: Webcam The Norwegian Public Highway Administration / The Norwegian Public Highway Administration
Thousands without power
The strong wind has also caused several thousand people to lose energy in eastern Norway in the past 24 hours.
More than 3,000 were at a point without power in Viken, Hafslund’s power outage map was shown at 4.30pm Monday. Worst of all, it went beyond the municipality of Sarpsborg, where 1447 was without electricity.
By age 17, many of the power outages were rectified, and the number of powerless people dropped to just over 1,000. Most in Nes, where 570 are powerless.
Also in the capital, more people have to drive without electricity. 427 Hafslund customers were without power after five different power outages.
Strong wind in the north
According to meteorologist Granerød, it is also blowing much further north in our country on Monday night.
– In Nordland winds have been good in urbanized areas, wind gusts are in some places between 30 and 35 meters per second. Trøndelag has also been very windy, says Granerød.
The chief of operations in the Nordland Police District confirms that he is blowing well in some places.
– But we are an elongated county, so how much it blows varies a lot. We have not been notified of any weather-related incidents, people or property damage, operations manager Kai Eriksen in the Nordland Police District told VG on Monday night.
CLOSED: The E6 over Saltfjellet is closed Monday due to bad weather and won’t open until the driving column on Tuesday morning, according to the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. Photo: Webcam The Norwegian Public Highway Administration / The Norwegian Public Highway Administration
Closed mountain crossings
Strong winds and snowflakes create problems for mountain traffic in southern Norway on Monday afternoon, NTB writes.
At 4:45 pm, Highway 7 on Hardangervidda was closed, but there was free traffic on E16 on Filefjell, E134 on Haukelifjell and Highway 52 on Hemsedalsfjellet, reports the Norwegian Public Highway Administration.
E6 on Dovrefjell, County Highway 50 Hol-Aurland, National Highway 15 on Strynefjellet, County Highway 27 on Venabygdsfjellet and County Highway 51 on Valdresflye is completely closed, and the last three do not open on Monday.
– It is the wind and the snowflake that create problems, and in some places it also snows, traffic operator Mette Brunes tells NTB.
– Generally there will be a lot of weather in the mountains in the coming days, mainly at mountain crossings in southern Norway. Now, not many people move in the mountains during the day, but those who drive over mountain crossings should check the weather and drive, according to meteorologist Granerød at VG.
Tuesday’s conditions will improve in the eastern mountains.
– From Wednesday it seems that we will have temperatures above fifteen degrees and sunshine, but from Thursday the temperature may drop slightly again. In southern Norway, there is a build-up of high pressure, so it is permissible to wait for a very pleasant weekend, says the meteorologist.
– From western Norway, it will continue with cloudy weather and rain on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and cloudy weather will fall again until Friday. But even there, there may be gradually better weather, and relatively pleasant from Friday.
