Storm Boelo hit Norway overnight into Sunday, cutting power to more than 5,000 customers in Agder and tearing metal roofing off buildings along the coast.
Around 4 am the outage map of grid company Glitre Nett showed more than 5,000 of its subscribers without power, mainly along the coast and in Evje and Hornnes. Lede Nett had nearly 1,000 customers without power, primarily between Larvik and Sandefjord in Vestfold, NTB reported. Otherwise there were only a few smaller outages in Telemark and just north of Oslo.
On Karmøy police received a report of corrugated metal sheets that had flown off a roof. "The sheets come from an industrial building belonging to the municipality. The municipality is going out to the site," operations leader Rune Tallaksen wrote in the log shortly before 3 am.
In Bergen the wind tore steel plates loose from a smaller commercial building. "The fire service is on its way to the site to try to secure them. It is blowing hard at the scene," operations leader Tore Fanebust wrote shortly after 3 am.
NVE issued an orange warning for flood and landslide risk for parts of Østlandet. "There is a lot of rain in a short time, so there can be extensive flood damage and landslides. Roads and bridges can be closed at short notice," said NVE flood duty officer Tuomo Saloranta.
He said the orange level is "absolutely a serious situation".
The Meteorological Institute warned of 40 to 60 millimetres of rain in 12 hours in parts of Telemark, Buskerud, Vestfold and west of Oslo, with water flows already high. State meteorologist Emili Carin Rønning said the low pressure is less powerful than Storm Amy a year ago, and that the yellow warning level for rain and wind is expected to hold through the event.
Fjord Line cancelled several ferry departures, including Stavangerfjord's departure from Kristiansand at 23:15 on Saturday. Color Line cancelled Superspeed departures between Kristiansand and Hirtshals from Hirtshals at 20:40 on Saturday and from Kristiansand at 08:00 on Sunday.
What to do
- Official preparedness advice: DSB, sikkerhverdag.no.
- Emergency: 112 (police), 110 (fire), 113 (ambulance).