Powerful storms are raging in the North-Norway – VG

A violent storm in Finnmark leads to big problems. Several roads and mountain passes are closed.

on Thursday night had all of the roads along the entire coast of West-Finnmark to be closed as a result of the fierce wind, according to NRK.

the Norwegian Meteorological institute has sent out a CAUTION alert for the county. It is expected strong wind on the plateau with gusts of 30 to 35 metres a second.

With the wind comes the snow and blowing snow and very difficult driving conditions.

Around the clock one night to Friday, was highway 94 opened again.

the Weather has calmed down in Hammerfest. Now move it more north-eastwards, while snøbygene goes south, ” says vaktleder at 110 centre, Peace-Ole Holmen, VG-clockwise 2.30.

Thursday night raged the storm in Hammerfest. The police and the fire department was forced to close the main street through the town.

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Several cars of the road

The violent the wind led to both ferries, speedboats, airplanes and buses had problems in several places in the North of Norway on Thursday night. The strong wind took care of the worst up against the storm strength.

A city bus blew off the road on slippery roads on the route between the Prairie in Hammerfest and Forsøl, type ifinnmark.

the Episode happened at the 19-time. No one was injured in the accident, but busselskapet Boreal chose to suspend all the traffic in the Town.

Also, several cars are blown off the road in the city. The first one that was parked and then a car drove on highway 94. On a very slippery, the car was taken by the wind and blown against the fence, writes northern lights.

Also a bus sheds blew together in Hammerfest.

Several injured in accident

on Thursday night had to emergency services also respond to an accident in Storsvingen in Hammerfest. Two cars and a total of three people was involved.

It is reported about the injury, but the number of damaged and skadegrad is currently unknown, informs the Finnmark police district.

– We have the fire, ambulance and police at the site now. The damaged shall be taken out of the injury site and on the way to Hammerfest hospital, said operasjonsleder Andreas Haugåsen to VG on Thursday night.

– We assume that the wind is the reason that the cars collided, just because the weather conditions are harsh. We have not yet been in contact with some of those involved in the accident, he continued.

closures

Isbjørnhallen – a multi-purpose hall at the Prairie in the Hammerfest also held on to lose the steel plates that are attached to the wall. The fire department decided to close the hall with immediate effect.

In the course of the evening were several stretches of road in the area closed because of the weather. Among other things, route 183 Børselv-Veidnesholmen, road 98 Børselvfjellet on the route Lakselv-Tana, as well as E69 Hønsa-Nordkapptunnelen was hit.

Also highway 77 Graddis by Tjernfjellet is closed due to salvage of a goods.

power Outage

Operasjonslederen also confirmed on Thursday night above VG that the whole city centre in Hammerfest is without power.

a Few minutes later, lit Hammerfest Energi AS, that the power outage was short-lived.

– We had a short period of time where the power had gone. Some power switches fell out because of the tumultuous weather. Now it shall be in order, but we have people in emergency case any issues arise, ” says the managing director of Hammerfest Energy, Jon Eirik Holst.

Delays and cancellations

In addition to the powerful winds in Finnmark blowing it is also powerful in other places in the North of Norway. In Tromsø had a SAS-fly give up trying to land and fly to Bodø instead. The plane was supposed to have landed the clock 18.50.

the Airport was temporarily closed, but according to the officer Knut Morten Johansen of SAS will the aircraft fill up the fuel and try again. There are a number of delays at the airport in Tromsø on Thursday as a result of the storm.

Widerøe had to suspend its flights to Hammerfest and Lakselv Thursday night.

Flyforsinkelser provided also that the captain of the speedboat between Tromsø and Finnsnes/Harstad was considerably delayed in the afternoon. The boat had to simply wait on the captain and came off closer to an hour and a half too late.

Several other ferries and fast ferries in Troms also had to set because of the storm Thursday.

the Wind is expected to decrease Friday afternoon, according to the Norwegian Meteorological institute.