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Motorists trapped in flooded Gothenburg

Emergency services are cautioning motorists in Gothenburg in western Sweden to take care as a recent wave of winter weather has left a number of roads in the city's road flooded.

Published: 10 December 2011 12:54 CET
Motorists trapped in flooded Gothenburg

Due to the flooding, accessibility is heavily restricted in Sweden’s second biggest city and barriers have been put up in several locations in a collaborative effort between police, rescue services and the transportation administration.

A number of cars were stuck on flooded streets in Gothenburg on Friday night.

One woman received life threatening injuries when her car sank on a flooded street in the Gamlestaden part of the city.

She was discovered by a police squad as she tried to exit her car on the blocked off street.

“Cars have gotten stuck in the water in several locations when the drivers have tried to get around the barriers,” Lars Gunnar Gustafsson at the Västra Götaland police told news agency TT.

“But most of them have made it out without injuries.”

By Saturday morning the water levels had started to sink.

Flood levels in Gothenburg peaked around 4am on Saturday morning when the water level was 146 centimetres above normal.

The Götatunneln tunnel was reopened for traffic on Saturday after being closed off on Friday evening due to water gushing up the storm drains.

Traffic at the Älvsborgs bridge was also running smoothly again on Saturday.

Some locations in Gothenburg are however still flooded.

About 14,000 customers were without electricity on Saturday morning, and in the Västernorrland region in northern Sweden about 8,500 customers are without power.

In the Västerbotten region about 5,000 are without power, and in Västra Götaland the number is about 1,000.

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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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