Bor School, Sweden

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Hi Malcolm

It is nice to participate this year too! This is in very short what happened in our part of Sweden earlier this year.

Saturday 8 January 2005 an intense low pressure passed southern Scandinavia eastwards.

We were struck by a severe storm with gusts up to 42-45 m/s. It was a disaster for great areas of forests in southern Sweden. As many as 170 millions trees were fallen down.Fifteen people were killed. The power supply and telecommunication networks were down for quite many days. In our area there are still 12 000 houses lacking electricity (after three weeks).

Here are some pictures of what happened - I hope this will be interesting.

Best wishes
Christer

Bor School
Sweden

Forest_1.jpg shows a forest near Värnamo. Photo:VN Jerry Johnsson

Forest_3.jpg shows cut trees

Forest_road_2.jpg shows a typical forest road.

House_2.jpg shows a danger situation.

Road_1.jpg Many main roads were like this. Photo DN Lennart Rehnman

Traffic_sign_2.jpg Where is the road?

Trunk_2.jpg What a wind gust of 40 m/s can do.

Uprooted_stump.jpg It will be a hard and dangerous work to clear up.

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The contrails were short and disappeared rapidly.(3/3/05)

The younger pupils at Bor School really enjoy days with snow and sun. The pic is from the school's playground. (2/3/05)

Part of the weather group measuring the depth of the snow. They measured ten times at various spots. The resulting mean value was 23 cm. (2/3/05)