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IN PICTURES: Storm Babet batters Sweden

Storm Babet caused power outages, flooding and downed trees across southern Sweden on Friday evening.

Published: 21 October 2023 13:22 CEST
IN PICTURES: Storm Babet batters Sweden
A large tree hit a car on Västanvägen in Bjärred outside Lund and blocked the road on Friday evening. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT.

Storm Babet left widespread flooding, power outages and downed trees across southern Sweden on Friday night. Wind speeds are expected to ease throughout Saturday, but an orange weather warning still applied in the morning. 

READ ALSO: What you need to know about Storm Babet in southern Sweden

The stormy conditions also affected travel, with trains, buses and flights cancelled when Babet moved in. In the evening, the winds increased in strength and lasted throughout the night, causing floods and power cuts in Skåne, according to local media reports.

Fortunately, on Saturday morning the Swedish Meteorological (SMHI) stated that the storm had peaked and was now weakening in strength. 

Several huts were overturned, damaged and crushed in Ljunghusen after storm Babet. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT.

In Bjärred, a large tree fell on a car with a family inside, but the family escaped unharmed, Sydsvenskan reports. In Yngsjö, a man was rescued from a car on a flooded road.

Thousands of households also lost power as a result of the storm. As of 10am on Saturday morning, around 2,000 households in Skåne were still affected and in Kalmar area around 400 people were left without electricity, according to Sydsvenskan and P4 Kalmar.

 
 
Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT.
 
 
In the port of Skåre outside Trelleborg, the port completely flooded during the night. Photo: Johan Nilsson / TT
 
 
Many roads flooded throughout Trelleborg on friday night as sea levels approached 1.5 metres above normal. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT.

 
A man clearing a large tree that hit a car on Västanvägen in Bjärred outside Lund on Saturday after the storm Babet subsided. Photo: Johan Nilsson
 
 
 
Waves whip against the breakwater at Falsterbokanalen in Höllviken south of the Öresund Bridge on Friday. Photo: Johan Nilsson.

 
A large tree hit a car on Västanvägen in Bjärred outside Lund and blocked the road on Friday evening. No one in the car was injured. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT.

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What’s the weather going to be like in Sweden this summer?

Sweden is (usually) the perfect country to visit in summer – long, warm days that never really turn into night, but not as suffocatingly hot as southern Europe. Will that be the case this year?

Published: 31 May 2024 10:28 CEST
What's the weather going to be like in Sweden this summer?

According to public broadcaster SVT’s forecast for the summer, there are three possible scenarios for the Swedish weather.

Essentially, a low pressure front is expected to move in across the west of Scandinavia, roughly over the UK, while a high pressure front is expected to arrive from the east, over Finland and western Russia, but it’s not entirely clear exactly where these two fronts will meet.

Sweden could end up underneath either one of them, which gives slightly more predictable weather, or between the two, which would give us more unstable and changeable weather during the summer season.

If the high pressure front ends up over Sweden, SVT meteorologist Nitzan Cohen said, then summer could be hot and dry – maybe even very hot in periods, although this won’t necessarily be the case for the entire summer.

If we end up under the low pressure front in the west, then weather would be more rainy and unstable, although there would probably be some periods with hot weather coming in from the east.

In the last scenario, Sweden ends up between the two pressure fronts, with warm weather coming from the east and cold from the west. This is the most unpredictable option, with high temperatures and a lot of rain likely.

You can keep up-to-date with weather forecasts and weather alerts via Sweden’s meteorological office SMHI, whether that’s flood alerts or a risk of wildfire.

You can also keep up to date with any fire bans here.

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