Hello!
Cyclone Manfred seems to be one of the strongest depressions ever hit to
Finland.
While i'm writing this, outside my house there is gusts of 24 m/s and the
situation
has been almost the same in last 15 hours. I'm living some 150 kilometers
off the coast,
where the wind speed has been much higher, up to 37 m/s in gusts. The maximum
10 minutes average windspeed has been 29 m/s in some weather stations in
the coast.
In central Finland, the rain turn to wet snow, and the result was a heavy
snowstorm.
Some 40 000 households have been suffering from power blackouts last 24 hours
in that area. Also the whole Aland Isles area between Finland and Sweden
have been
suffering from long blackouts, not because of snow but because of trees
falling down
to power lines.
An iranian cargo ship is in deep touble in west coast when it lost all
powers. The waves
have been about 10 meters high, and the coast guard is rescueing the sailmen.
Regards, Olli Haukkovaara
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