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Swedish-Danish Øresund bridge reopens as storm winds abate

The Øresund Bridge, which links Sweden and Denmark, reopened on Sunday morning after being forced to close for safety reasons due to strong winds from storm Malik, which is currently battering northern Europe.

Øresund Bridge
Øresund Bridge carries motor and railway traffic and connects Sweden and Denmark.(Photo: Janus Langhorn/imagebank.sweden.se)

However, wind-sensitive vehicles were advised against crossing the combined highway and railway bridge due to still-strong winds, the consortium operating the bridge wrote on Twitter.

Hurricane-force winds were measured on several occasions during the evening and overnight, it said.

The bridge reopened at around 9.10am after closing to all traffic in both directions at 7pm on Saturday, Ritzau news agency reported earlier.

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Weather forecast: Sweden set for hottest day of the year

Tuesday could very well be Sweden's warmest day of the year so far.

Weather forecast: Sweden set for hottest day of the year

Summer is set to stick around for most of the week, in fact.

“We’ll generally be at 18-24C in large parts of the country until Sunday. [Today] we could get a new highest temperature of the year, up to at least 26C,” Lasse Rydqvist, a meteorologist for weather forecasters Klart, told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet.

Temperatures are right now around 2-12C higher than they normally are this time of the year, reports the newspaper.

The mercury is expected to reach the highest temperatures in above all Svealand and eastern Norrland – so in other words roughly central Sweden – but northern regions Västernorrland and Västerbotten could potentially also get an unusually early taste of summer this week. 

The far north of Sweden is the exception – get your umbrella out on Wednesday if you live there.

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