About 50 000 households in Norway and 100 000 in Sweden has been
without power after the storm with hurricane forces last night and
this morning.
Still a large part of these are without electric power.
The storm seems to have hit hardest in the eastern part of South
Norway and the western part of southern Sweden.
Trees downed by the wind closed roads, and cut off powerlines
all over the affected area. One person was killed because of
the storm in Sweden.
Many roads over the mountains had to be closed because of the blizzard
conditions, some are still closed.

Also several ships drifted ashore on the coast in the
southern part of North Norway (Nordland).
The day before a small pasenger plane with 4 people chrashed
on the runway in Bodø, because of the winds and a strike by lightning,
but nobody was killed.

Bjørn Sørheim,
in Norway

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/ir...ticleID=685607
(Norwegian)
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyhete...401765,00.html
(Swedish)


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Commiserations Bjorn,
any information on the meteorological analysis of the storm?On the 0Z chart
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkfaxbraar.htm
there appears to be a tight squeeze on the back bent occlusion tho the low itself isn't particularly
deep.The WV shows a strong dry intrusion-
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/pdus/BW/...60000BW1_g.jpg

Are you lurking Rich (Dixon)?

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david
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Commiserations Bjorn,
any information on the meteorological analysis of the storm?On the 0Z chart
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkfaxbraar.htm
there appears to be a tight squeeze on the back bent occlusion tho the low itself isn't particularly
deep.The WV shows a strong dry intrusion-
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/pdus/BW/...60000BW1_g.jpg

The Stavanger 0Z sounding shows dry air and strong winds aloft,presumably these must have mixed down
to the surface-
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...600&STNM=01415

Are you lurking Rich (Dixon)?

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regards,
david
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 21:53:15 -0000, Waghorn wrote in


Commiserations Bjorn,
any information on the meteorological analysis of the storm?On the 0Z chart
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/tkfaxbraar.htm
there appears to be a tight squeeze on the back bent occlusion tho the low itself isn't particularly
deep.The WV shows a strong dry intrusion-
http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/pdus/BW/...60000BW1_g.jpg

Yes, that dry slot is very marked. This is another link to the 00z chart
above, as by tomorrow a new one will have appeared:

http://217.160.130.220/wz/pics/archi...ka20031206.gif

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Mike Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 06/12/2003 21:57:47 UTC
My aurora images here http://www.mtullett.plus.com/29a-oct and
http://www.mtullett.plus.com/20-nov/

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 21:53:15 -0000, Waghorn wrote in


The Stavanger 0Z sounding shows dry air and strong winds aloft,presumably these must have mixed down
to the surface-
http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/soun...600&STNM=01415

Are you lurking Rich (Dixon)?

That ascent shows an amazing inversion as well, with the temperature rising
from -9.7C at 1591m to -0.1C at 3909m

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Mike Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 06/12/2003 22:03:45 UTC
My aurora images here http://www.mtullett.plus.com/29a-oct and
http://www.mtullett.plus.com/20-nov/

The Stavanger 0Z sounding .......
That ascent shows an amazing inversion as well, with the temperature rising
from -9.7C at 1591m to -0.1C at 3909m

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Mike

Yeah,I assumed this was due to the shallow arctic air mass coming in behind the low (over a warm
sea track tho ) ,but i'm not familiar with polar soundings .Can anybody comment?

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david
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