A sudden weather event created hazardous driving conditions on the E6 highway north of Oslo, forcing multiple vehicles to pull over. Eidmante Gudelvecite and her family were heading to their cabin when visibility dropped sharply between Gardermoen and Lillestrøm. "It froze instantly, and you couldn’t see anything," she said. They turned the heat up full blast, but ice kept forming on the windshield. Several cars slowed down and moved to the shoulder, prompting Gudelvecite to realize the issue wasn’t with their vehicle but the atmosphere itself. "It was very humid and foggy. We don’t know what happened—it was strange," she added. Around ten cars stopped along the roadside in minus 13-degree temperatures to scrape ice off their windshields, including her family, who had to stop repeatedly. "I’ve never seen so many people pulled over like that," she noted. The Norwegian Meteorological Institute confirmed a mix of precipitation types hit eastern Norway, including snow, drizzle, rain, and sleet. Pernille Borander, a senior meteorologist, explained that supercooled rain or sleet froze immediately upon contact with cold surfaces. A yellow weather warning was issued Sunday afternoon for black ice from freezing precipitation. While traffic largely remained normal across eastern Norway, road salt proved ineffective in low-traffic areas because of the extreme cold.
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