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Avalanche danger during Good Friday
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen The warnings apply until 18:00 on Good Friday. Archive image. Photo: Mats Lennartson/TT Many Swedes are in the mountains to celebrate Easter. But the adventurous…
Significant avalanche danger in mountain areas
Updated 02.36 | Published 01.47 share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen There is significant avalanche danger in the Abisko and Riksgränsfjällen mountains. Archive image. Photo: Mats Lennartson / TT There is…
Snow: 3 departments placed on orange avalanche alert by Météo-France
Météo-France warns of the risk of avalanches this Monday March 4. Three departments have been placed on orange vigilance and nine remain on yellow vigilance at the start of the…
Météo-France warns of the risk of avalanche
This Sunday March 3, Météo-France calls for caution. Three departments have been placed on orange avalanche alert and ten others on yellow alert until this evening. At 9 a.m., Météo-France…
At least four dead in avalanche in France – several people missing
Nine people were swept away by the masses of snow when the avalanche hit Sancy, the highest mountain in the Massif Central, French media reports. Three of the victims have…
Most Swedish avalanche deaths occur in the Alps
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Rescue work after an avalanche near Fiesch in Switzerland in 2018. Photo: Jean-Christoph Bott/AP/TT Eighty percent of Swedes who died in avalanche accidents during the…
The road to Norway’s Hammesfest has been cut off for the fifth time this year due to an avalanche – the emergency hospital is in trouble | Lapland
The municipality has demanded the construction of a tunnel in the area. It would cost 800 million kroner, which corresponds to a good 70 million in euros. The road leading…
An unusually large avalanche was triggered on Giriffjället during the storm Ingunn
It was when Tyler Curtis and his colleague were out doing field observations for the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s avalanche forecasts after last week’s storm that they found the traces…
Avalanche danger in the mountains
There is a high risk of avalanches in several places in the mountains.The heavy drift snow can cause “unusually large”, avalanches, write The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. There is a…
The think-tank’s forecast: An avalanche of votes for the far-right in the European elections – this would be a Eurosceptic European Parliament | Foreign countries
The EU will take a sharp turn to the right in the June European elections, predicts the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank in his recent forecast. The conservative…