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Major storm sweeps across Nordic countries
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- Title
- Storm Johannes: Two killed in Sweden as major storm sweeps Nordic countries
- Published
- Dec 28 2025
- Word count
- 359 words
On a lighter note, this year saw storm Johannes beat the arsonists to fell the Gävlebocken!
There's something very sad to me about them just leaving his corpse to lie as it fell. With the live stream still going.... :(
Or maybe he's just taking a well-deserved nap? Standing up for so long has to make his legs sore!
I have been quite pleased with this part.
A bit of whistling in the dark I suspect.
So far there has been 3 deaths reported due to the storm.
I was up in southern Darlicaria (Dalarna) in a cabin by a lake and there has been quite a lot of trees felled by the storm. We managed to clear the private road from the cabin to the communal road network. Makes you appreciate power tools and good neighbors!
Welcome to our wilder climate future.
This year, the Great Lakes region of the U.S. got hit with a similar storm that killed half a dozen people and took out power for hundreds of thousands. It was followed weeks later by deadly storms with historic flooding, high winds, and tornadoes.
In my locale, we've just had several days of ice storms. We tried to go to the grocery store this morning and turned around because we started sliding down the hill on our street into a major road.
We're about to get a bomb cyclone and historic wave activity on the Great Lakes, with more freezing rain and another half meter of snow tomorrow and Tuesday.
Even granting that Michigan is accustomed to severe weather, public services have already been struggling to keep up - roads not salted/sanded/plowed for days, traffic lights not working, lengthy power outages, schools closed, etc. I'd hope the Nordic countries have better responses and more resilient infrastructure, but this is what it means to have unmitigated climate change.
Really not looking forward to the 50 degree temperature drop anticipated to occur over the course of an hour today.
My sinuses are pre-emptively upset.
I'm so sorry you've got the weather-related sinus horrors. It's crazy - I've never seen the Accuweather Arthritis Index hit a "9" before (combo of cold, damp, and barometric pressure delta) and I am so feeling it today.
I didn't even think to check it but it's probably why my partner feels like trash too today. Uggggggh. Plus however many allergens the warm weather + moisture + wind/storms will kick up.
I am staying home today for sure.
And the humidity change is going to be insane as well
At what point should humanity invest in bio suits at home for occasional/seasonal use? At least a helmet with modulated / filtered air
A CPAP machine is most of the way there, with particle filtration, pressure, and humidity control. You just need to either make it portable or accept being tethered to the outlet.
50 degrees over an hour!? I didn't know that was even possible! That's... Yeah, that's got to be hell for your sinuses and skin.
I'll get back to you later tonight to see if I still have either!
Update: looks like a slower temp change now, but the storm system is starting to move through with serious risks of tornados. I got maybe 30-60 min before getting hit and then the temp will probably tank, just not as fast.... I hope ʕಠ_ಠʔ
Only a 25 degree drop over an hour, but feels another 10 degrees cooler past that. Ugh.
Mostly I want a nap, no huge sinus issues but a headache. Skin seems intact. For now.
(The humidity shift will get me later I assume)
It seems almost like a clockwork that there's at least one storm around Christmas here. Christmas storm as we call it but maybe a "winter storm" would be more accurate. There's at least a few that have been this significant last ten years or so I think. For fun I checked how big waves were measured and the Bothnian Sea buoy logged over 10m waves (significant wave height over 9), so there could be some twice that high waves. And the buoy location was not even very close towards the end of the wind corridor just North of Åland islands.