On Monday, there may be snow chaos in Eastern Norway again. – Check the app, asks Ruter.
Snow and traffic chaos have marked Oslo for many days so far this year. Photo: Siri Øverland Eriksen / Aftenposten
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Published: 11/02/2024 22:59
– Yellow danger level. How much snow will there actually be on Monday, Meteorological Institute?
– It will be a snowy day. A total of 15–20 centimeters of snow in 24 hours. It starts calmly with a couple of centimeters in the morning rush hour, but mostly comes in the last half of the day, says state meteorologist Terje Alsvik Walløe. It will end on the night of Tuesday, he promises.
Met.no recommends on Monday to:
- Calculate a little extra time for transport and driving
- Use the right tires.
- Drive according to the conditions.
Some journeys may have longer journey times due to “locally difficult driving conditions”, it is warned.
Ruter: Hope it goes as well as possible
– Will there be chaos again now, Routes?
– We hope that it will go as well as possible. We follow along from hour to hour. All operators are in winter mode. But when there is so much snow, there can be delays, says Pernille Aga, press contact at Ruter.
– We encourage people to check the app to see if there are any delays, says Aga, and promises that everyone has practiced and has “the measures ready”.
– Are we talking chain?
– Yes, among other things. After a few weeks of such weather, everyone is well versed in what they need to do.
– What do you do differently to avoid chaos again?
– First of all, we do mer, as we have had these difficult days. Now the operators have their measures and take action as needed.
– There will be as much snow on Monday as on the worst days of chaos.
– But this will be spread over several hours. So maybe the plowing crews will have time to plough.
It will be a couple of minus degrees and a little sour wind throughout the day, says the meteorologist.
– But on Wednesday it will tip over the zero line again, maybe there will be a little rain. And then it freezes up again for the weekend.
– Then it will be more cold?
– It can get a bit slippery, yes. We’ll see how bad it gets.
– A long winter
– It has been a long winter, with a lot of cold, says Alsvik Walløe.
The meteorologists have noted that both October, November and December were colder than normal, he says.
– And January was very cold! We ended up 3.3 degrees below normal.
– Huff.
– Yes, but it is moving towards spring, after all, at least the calendar shows it. But there are no signs of an early spring, either.
2024-02-11 21:59:11
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