Severe storm: – The Swedish Road Administration: – Do not drive now

Police urge Hammerfest residents to be careful if traveling outside, as it is very windy in the area.

They also encourage you to secure loose objects that are in danger of being blown away by the wind.

An object is in danger of detaching from the ceiling at a Hammerfest address. Police and firefighters are on site, but cannot secure the property at the moment.

– Asking those who have to travel to the area to exercise great caution, reports the Finnmark police.

Yr has issued a yellow warning for strong gusts of wind in parts of northern Troms and coastal and fjord areas of Finnmark, writes NTB.

– Locally strong gusts of 27–35 meters per second are expected from the south and southeast. A small thunderstorm of 22 meters per second is expected on the coast. The strongest gusts are expected in the exposed areas of the fjords. The wind will pick up first in the west and then in the east, he says.

The Swedish Road Traffic Center reports a convoy traveling between Hammerfest and Kvalsund due to storms.

At nearly every mountain pass in the entire county, there is now a moving or fully enclosed convoy.

– Almost all of Finnmark is closed. Only Hatter is open now, says Erland Tretteskog, traffic operator at Vegtrafikksentralen north, in Dagbladet.

There is also a convoy that drives on a number of coastal roads, such as the one between Hammerfest and Kvalsund.

– It’s a stretch exposed to the elements, with lots of snow and thunderstorms, he says.

The mountain pass between Troms and Finnmark, Kvernangsfjellet, also looks set to be closed. Now there is column guidance.

– It doesn’t look good. Many ferry crossings have also been cancelled, she says.

– We encourage no one in Finnmark to drive today if they don’t have to. The time we have now is the same as last night and beyond the morning hours.

It may still appear that the Finnmarkings take adverse weather conditions with a certain amount of slack.

– We have not received so many calls from motorists. People are used to it, she says.

An overview of the roads affected by closures or traffic jams can be found at The websites of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration.