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Two people rescued after being stuck in Swedish mountains

Two people were stuck on a mountain in Abisko near the border with Norway.

Published: 27 March 2017 12:08 CEST
Updated: 27 March 2017 17:08 CEST
Two people rescued after being stuck in Swedish mountains
File photo of an avalanche warning sign. Photo: Erik Nylander/TT

One of them is understood to have got frostbites and needed help to get out of there, reports TT newswire.

An ambulance helicopter tried to reach their cabin, but was forced to turn back because of bad weather.

Mountain rescuers reached the site at noon. An hour later a police helicopter managed to get there and transported the pair to hospital in Jokkmokk.

Another rescue operation was launched in the area on Monday, after relatives raised the alarm when four people who had gone to the lake Pieskejaur yesterday did not return home.

There was no mobile coverage in the area and police decided to send out a rescue team to search for them. They were stood down just before 11am after the family made contact with the missing group.

There is currently a high risk of avalanches in the Abisko area. The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency warns: “Very dangerous avalanche conditions. Travel in avalanche terrain not recommended.”

National weather agency SMHI has issued a class-one weather alert for northern Sweden, warning of strong winds (50 km/h to 65 km/h) and snow in the north-west.  

WEATHER

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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