{"id":214412,"date":"2025-12-28T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214412\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:17:09","slug":"two-killed-in-sweden-as-major-storm-sweeps-nordic-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/214412\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in Sweden as major storm sweeps Nordic countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765803856_5_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/95f378c0-e3c1-11f0-ab4d-ffb30bdd3a1f.png.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Getty Images A pedestrian walks their dog along a snow-covered road next to houses and parked cars in Are, northern Sweden.\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute issued alerts for strong winds across large parts of northern Sweden as Storm Johannes hit<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Two people have died in Sweden after a powerful winter storm swept across Nordic countries, causing travel disruption and power outages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute issued alerts for strong winds for large parts of the northern half of the country as Storm Johannes hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One man in his 50s died after being struck by a tree in the Kungsberget ski resort in the country&#8217;s south, local media and police reported; while regional utility company, Hemab, said that one of its employees died in an accident &#8220;in the field&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Tens of thousands of homes in Sweden, Norway and Finland have been left without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In Sweden, more than 40,000 homes were affected by power outages and numerous rail services were cancelled, Swedish news agency TT reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Several flights, rail and ferry services across parts of the Nordic nations have been cancelled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Roads and rail services have also been disrupted due to the storm conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In Norway&#8217;s Nordland region, one of the most northerly counties in the country, the fire department responded to more than 200 weather\u2011related incidents, broadcaster NRK reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Storm Johannes cut power to around 23,000 homes in Nordland and a further 9,000 were without electricity in the Inland region, NRK said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In Finland, the storm, known there as Hannes, subsided on Sunday morning but had left more than 33,000 homes without power, according to public broadcaster Yle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Flights at Kittila airport in northern Finland were grounded after heavy winds pushed a passenger jet and a smaller plane off the runway and into a bank of snow, the Helsinki Times reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Swiss Air jet, carrying about 150 passengers, had just landed from Geneva and was taxiing when it veered off, the paper said. The smaller jet, a 400XT model, was on the ground at the same time and was also pushed off course by the wind, it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">There have been no reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Swedish Transport Administration announced that many train services have been suspended until noon on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute issued alerts for strong winds across large parts of northern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-214412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}