Friday, September 26, 2014

Meteorologist: – The wind is not the strongest yet – VG

Meteorologist: – The wind is not the strongest yet – VG

Currently, the north west of the country who know most of the first powerful storm in the autumn of 2014 has to offer. But Northern Norway can expect worse into the night.

Several places in the country Friday night hit by a powerful storm. Especially along the coast in northwestern Norway, Trøndelag and North Norway is the strong wind, but on the west coast can also inland find that it blows strongly. Meteorological Department has issued OBS forecast.

Earlier Friday NAF sent out a press release urging motorists to check weather there they shall fall break.

– You may be surprised by the snow. Is it reported snow where you are going is winter tires mandatory, printer communications advisor in NAF, Jan Ivar Engebretsen, in the press release.

VG follow the weather! How does it look where you are? Do you have pictures or video from the storm? You can tell how you feel the first autumn storms.

VG checking the condition of burglaries in Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Sunnmøre, Northern Møre og Romsdal, Sør-Trøndelag, Nord-Trøndelag, Nordland, Lofoten, Middle Halogaland, Troms, West Finnmark and eastern -Finnmark.

Currently, little damage

Currently, only police districts in Sunnmøre, South and Nord-Trøndelag and Helgeland who have received messages result of the storm.

– We are constantly getting messages about scaffolding and boats are not properly anchored, but nothing serious so far, says operations manager at Sunnmøre Police, Borge Amdam, VG eve 21.00.

Sor-Trondelag says operations manager Leif Berglund that they currently only have received a call about a secured bad banner on a building site.

In Northern Norway on the other hand the owners of a caravan in Osen municipality expect some cleanup next time they start using it.

– It was a little exposed and tilted over, says operations manager Morten Evensen in Nord-Trøndelag Police District told VG.

– So far there are no major issues. There is a little building objects that flies, plastic and polystyrene and the like, says Evensen.

Operations Vegard Vordal at Helgeland Police say they have been far worse storms than this here.

– There is only trifles so far. We have just received notification of parts of a tree that is partially out into the roadway, said Vordal.



Western and Central Norway: Full and strong wind

– It is advisable to stay indoors. One should at least be aware if you go outside, said duty meteorologist at the Meteorological Institute in Bergen, Geir Ottar Fagerlid.

On the coast of Møre og Romsdal blowing it tonight storm, and around Stadt is the full and strong wind.

– In Trøndelag is the wind and smell the storm, but is on the small storm at the moment, says Fagerlid.

Late Friday evening and during the night the wind will turn in a westerly direction, and then it can blow good 3 to 5 mil in the coastal strip.

– Then it goes on to west can be quite powerful, with 25 to 30 feet in seconds inland. There is enough wind that one can get damage, said meteorologist.



North Norway: More wind in wait

duty meteorologist at the Meteorological Institute in Tromsø, Sjur Wergeland, says that it is Nordland experiencing most air Friday night.

– The wind has probably not been strongly here yet. It has been running southwesterly gale force, but we have notified the wind increased to gale gradually. When the wind turns a little direction and passes to the west, says Wergeland.

– There will be powerful blast, and we have also notified local large amounts of rain, he continues.

The meteorologist also said the rest of Northern Norway looks better. South Troms has a southerly gale exposed areas and in eastern Finnmark is the stiff wind exposed areas that will diminish throughout the night.

Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) flood alerts on yellow level for Nord-Trøndelag and Nordland, type NTB. This means that there is a risk of localized flooding due to rapidly rising water levels, and that there may be major flood damage and the problems locally.



Eastern and Southern Norway: Snow in height

Eastern and Southern Norway is also on the coast the wind is mostly in the evening, said duty meteorologist at the Meteorological Institute in Oslo, Elbjørg Moxnes.

– Inland only moderate breeze, max seven meters per second. But tomorrow it will blow up along the coast in periodically stiff breeze in a westerly or southwesterly direction. So we have these facilities, strong wind gusts that can continue early in the day in the morning for the whole area, says Moxnes.

There may be some rain in the far north in Telemark, Oppland, and the far west of Vest-Agder.

– On the mountain passes may start a little sleet and at 12-1400 meters may be snow flurries, said meteorologist.

In the mountains it is notified of gale force vulnerable places in the morning and gales on Sunday.



More roads closed

Several mountain passes and ferry crossings were closed due to inclement weather Friday evening, type NTB. Among them, 55 of the county Sogn Mountain. Here the fallen snow and traffic center in Laerdal says to NRK that there are more cars that are stuck.

county road 243 over Aurlandsfjellet in Sogn og Fjordane is also closed because of the storm. The same applies to the ferry route Losnegard-Krakhella in the same county, according to NPRA. In Nordland ferry route Bodø-Værøy-Voice-Moskenes set.



Artwork blown

NTB reported that a 150-meter-long art installation has blown over end in Gildeskål in Nordland. The artwork was designed to withstand North Norwegian autumn and winter. The installation of Sandhornøy – shaped like a fish flake – was taken by storm on Friday morning, writes Avisa Nordland.

Bad weather also makes the Hurtigruten ship Midnatsol must drop all port calls and sail straight from meteorologist in northern Norway to Bergen weekend. In addition, it allows the southbound ship is to sail into the Brønnøysund Friday, said Hurtigruten.

(VG / NTB)

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