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Snow chaos on Swedish roads

A trail of stranded trucks dotted the roads of Sweden on Friday as the first major snowfall of the season caught drivers unawares.

Published: 31 October 2008 17:48 CET
Snow chaos on Swedish roads

Police in Västmanland counted eleven trucks stuck in the snow on Friday morning outside the small town of Skinnskatteberg on national road 68.

“It’s the same thing every year. Heavy vehicles get stuck on the uphill stretches,” said police spokesman Per Strömback.

Only one lane remained open as the stranded trucks blocked traffic, said Strömbäck. One truck had veered into a ditch after a night of persistent snowfall.

Sweden’s National Road Administration (Vägverket) has issued a warning for icy conditions in much of the country throughout the evening and continuing into Saturday morning.

Meteorological agency SMHI recorded 17 centimetres of snow in Mockfjärd in Dalarna, while parts of Götaland saw snowfalls of up to 14 centimetres.

Much of Småland was covered in snow on Friday morning, and snowfalls are forecast to continue in Gävleborg. But the low pressure belt is in the process of moving eastwards, said SMHI, which warned of icy conditions in Götaland and Svealand once the snow has cleared.

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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