Search ends for men missing in storm

Three Icelandic fishermen remained missing and were presumed dead on Thursday after their boat sank in stormy seas about 270 kilometers northwest of Norway’s West Cape at Stad on Wednesday. The storm, meanwhile, halted helicopter traffic to several oil rigs in the North Sea. Search and rescue officials said there was no chance of finding [...]

Cold front moves in, storm coming

Temperatures are expected to dip way down below the freezing point this week, all over the country, with extremely cold temperatures already recorded in eastern and central Norway. Even the Oslo area was told to brace for around minus-20C, with a new storm due later in the week. Residents of Tynset, in eastern Norway not [...]

Avalanche warnings in the mountains

Norway’s state meteorological institute was warning Friday of high avalanche danger in the mountains of southern Norway, following heavy snowfall earlier in the week and rising temperatures. Two persons were dug out of the snow at a ski resort in Ørsta after a slide  Thursday evening. Both had skied off piste, away from the prepared [...]

Reindeer round-up turned fatal

An investigation was underway Thursday into the crash of a helicopter in Northern Norway that killed both of its passengers. The crash occurred while they were flying over a mountainous area near Mosjøen, to round up reindeer. Search and rescue workers found the wreckage and the bodies of both the helicopter’s Swedish pilot and his [...]

Evacuees finally allowed home

Around three dozen people who were evacuated from their homes on New Year’s Day, following a major landslide, were finally allowed to return to their homes this week. One family, however, still had to wait. Some had been allowed to return earlier to their property at Byneset in Trøndelag but others remained at a hotel [...]

Flooding threatens southern coast

The latest storm to hit Norway’s coast, called Emil, wasn’t as severe as predicted but it left coastal areas under threat of extremely high sea levels. Emergency crews in the southern town of Mandal were scrambling to shield buildings from water damage, and considered closing off the downtown area. State meteorologists withdrew their hurricane warnings [...]

New hurricane warnings posted

Residents along the southern coast of Norway were being told to brace for yet another severe storm that meteorologists warned would include hurricane-strength winds. The storm was expected to hit hardest Tuesday evening and rage through the night. Officials in southern Rogaland County and Vest-Agder were also warning residents and spectators to stay away from [...]

Warmest and wettest for 100 years

Last year started out bitterly cold but turned into the warmest and wettest year in Norway since weather statistics started being recorded 111 years ago. State meteorologists could confirm the wild weather trends when 2011 ended with a hurricane. News bureau NTB reported that residents of Nord-Trøndelag, Nordland and Troms counties experienced the biggest rise [...]

Most slide evacuees still can’t return

UPDATED: Nearly 20 persons remained under evacuation orders on Tuesday, after geologists couldn’t declare that landslides on their properties had stopped sliding. Two families were allowed to return to their homes, but the others stayed at a hotel in Trondheim. Police only allowed the rest of the evacuees brief visits to their homes, under escort, [...]

New storm hit as costs piled up

Damage and disruption continued to pile up after a new storm hit Norway earlier this week, even before clean-up after the weekend hurricane could begin. Strong winds and heavy rain flooded towns in the mountains and along the coast, key rail lines were blocked and all highways over the mountains were closed except for two, [...]

Hurricane hammered the holidays

One of the strongest hurricanes to ever hit Norway hammered coastal areas during the Christmas weekend and left a wide path of destruction throughout the south, west and northwest. Winds were clocked at more than 200 kilometers an hour, terrifying residents in many areas and leaving more than 100,000 homes without power. Damage reports were [...]

Holiday forecast: Mild, wet, slippery

Norwegians could look forward to a White Christmas and New Year at higher elevations, but holiday forecasts called for mild temperatures with rain and sleet along much of the coast. Motorists were also being warned of extremely slippery roads, especially in the valleys of southern Norway. “The warnings apply to Østerdalen, Gudbrandsdalen, Telemark and some [...]

New storm upset ferry travel

Passengers on board the ferry Bergensfjord this week had an extremely difficult voyage between Stavanger and Hirtshals in Denmark. Not only were they severely delayed, but some were injured after sailing into another severe storm at sea. Several passengers on the Bergensfjord suffered sprained wrists, bruising and rib damage during the rough crossing. They were [...]

Runway closure stranded thousands

Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen (OSL) was forced to suspend all flight departures and landings Monday morning, because of rain that froze upon hitting the runways. The complete halt in air traffic stranded thousands and caused major disruption throughout the day. The airport re-opened at 10am but operations were severely restricted. Jo Kobro, information chief [...]

More storms coming

Norway’s spate of stormy weather looked set to continue this week, after another weekend of hurricane-force winds along the southwest coast. The counties of Agder and Rogaland have been hardest hit. “We had another major storm in this area during the night heading into Sunday, and from Tuesday it will stir up again,” Ingrid Bentsen [...]

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