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Thousands still without electricity

Thousands of households in areas of northern Sweden were still without electricity on Sunday morning. Heavy snow and thick layers of ice are hampering repair work.

Published: 14 December 2008 10:34 CET

The power outages have been caused by the short circuiting of power lines in rural areas following heavy snow falls on Friday and Saturday in northern areas of Sweden.

According to state-owned utility Vattenfall around 3,000 of its customers remained without electricity on Sunday morning.

The firm has assigned 100 staff to work with finding and correcting problems with power lines and supplies over the weekend. The firm has on Sunday reinforced this workforce with staff from other areas of Sweden.

Most of the affected households were in the province of Norrbotten but also in Västerbotten and Västernorrland there were reports of power outages.

Eon reported that it has managed to return supplies to most of its customers and only a handful remained without electricity on Sunday morning.

Fortum confirmed on its home page on Sunday morning that all of its customers had regained access to electricity supplies.

The Swedish meteorological agency (SMHI) forecast milder weather and higher temperatures over the next couple of days with a thick layer of cloud over most parts of the country. More snow and rain is forecast in central areas of Sweden from Wednesday to Friday and the windy weather is expected to continue over next weekend.

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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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