Tag: weather

Snowstorms spur ‘chaos’ in southeast

Blizzards that were leaving some areas with as much as 70 centimeters of snow (more than two feet) all but paralyzed transport in counties...

Hurricane raged from south to north

Norway was battered by winds well over hurricane force on Monday, as yet another major storm system moved in over southern portions of the...

More ‘extreme’ weather battered central Norway

Warnings of "extreme" weather have become common in recent months, and left residents of Nordland, Trøndelag and Møre og Romsdal pounded by strong winds,...

Bergen failed to set new rain record

It would have been a dubious distinction, but citizens of Bergen just missed claiming what would have been another record for rain last year,...

Avalanche danger high as new storm rolls in

Norwegians traveling around Southern Norway during this holiday week were being warned not only of ongoing avalanche danger in the mountains but dangerous combinations...

More extreme weather batters West Coast

Strong winds and heavy rain set off more flooding and landslides at low elevations along Norway's West Coast on Saturday. Blizzards at higher elevations...

Bad weather can disrupt holiday traffic

More storms with strong winds were threatening to close more mountain highways in southern Norway on Thursday, just as hundreds of thousands of people...

Svalbard residents evacuated again

Extreme weather bearing down on Svalbard this week forced the evacuations Tuesday of around 180 residents on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen. Strong winds...

Woman killed after landslide hit house

A 38-year-old mother of five was killed when a landslide crashed through the family's home during another severe storm on Norway's West Coast. The...

Skies cleared after violent storms

The extreme weather system dubbed "Ylva" was finally subsiding on Friday after two days of strong winds, rain and blizzards that started in the...

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