Read news from:
Austria
SHARE
COPY LINK

WEATHER

Transport agency calls for caution after snow

The Swedish Transport Agency (Trafikverket) has called for car drivers to choose alternative transport as snowfalls and rain cause traffic problems across Sweden.

Published: 23 November 2010 08:39 CET
Transport agency calls for caution after snow

“Road-users should also keep informed about the traffic situation and weather development. Consider alternative modes of transport or to postpone your trip,” the agency wrote in a statement.

Snowfalls and windy conditions across southern Sweden on Monday caused a slew of traffic accidents.

A truck caused the blockage of a motorway slip-road on the E6 near Lomma. A further two trucks landed in the ditch after one attempted to overtake on the E4 south of Vaggeryd.

Furthermore a car hit the railings on road 40 near Öggestorp.

No one was injured in any of the reported accidents.

Meteorological agency SMHI has issued a class 2 weather warning for Kalmar, Jönköping, and Kroneberg counties in southern Sweden as a blast of winter weather is set to bring heavy snowfall and bone-chilling winds to many parts of the country.

A class 1 warning covers the rest of southern Sweden up to Östergötland County as well as most of the Swedish coastline.

“The snow looks like it will continue into Wednesday in many parts of eastern Götaland and eastern Svealand,” meteorologist Sten Laurin told the TT news agency on Monday.

Two decimeters of fresh snow are forecast across the area by Tuesday evening.

Member comments

Log in here to leave a comment.
Become a Member to leave a comment.

WEATHER

Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

SHOW COMMENTS