– We’re talking about a type of vårflaum that can do damage to the infrastructure and anna, says Inger Karin Engen. She is hydrolog in the Norwegian water resources and energy directorate (NVE) and jobs with flaumvarsling.
In a new report that becomes public Tuesday varslar NVE that the risk of flaum on the orange level is high in the majority of the river in Norway.
VARSLAREN: Inger Karin Engen is hydrolog in the NVE and feel carefully with the flaumutviklinga.
Photo: Stig Storheil / NVE
Orange level is the second highest alert level of the NVE and liabilities for the flaumar that can provide serious injuries.
– It is in the north that the chance is greatest for such rather extreme violence harmful vårflaum, ” says Engen.
NVE has calculated that the risk of large vårflaum in North Norway is above 90 percent.
But also in the rest of the country, the danger far greater than normal.
– Usually assumed we a chance for a flaum on the orange level to around 20 percent. This year is the chance for such flaum of over 50 per cent in most of the rivers that come from the inner layer.
a Lot of snow in the mountains
On the Storåsen at Sjusjøen measures Ellen Garden snødjupna on behalf of the NVE. She is one of many in a large network of local was reported as a report to the directorate.
She stated that it is common with a lot of snow in the mountains here, but that winter in years still works out:
– Depth of this year is a little above average, but the proportion of water in the snow is rekordhøg.
DEEP SNOW: Ellen Hagen drive with hytteservice and maintenance of the Storåsen at Sjusjøen. In addition, the measures she snødjupna for NVE every fourteenth day.
Photo: Even Luseter / nrk
the NVE has measured amounts of snow leave the mountains every year since 1958. Only five years earlier, it has been just as much or more snow than it is in years. The last time was in the winter of 2000, twenty years ago.
I have only drive since 2012, the victory Garden, but she drove here before telling that she would rather never have seen so hardpakka snow as we have in years.
The many periods of the history with large snowfall, replaced by the mildvêr and rain before it has frose on again, have done that the snow this year held in the very much water, explains the Garden.
The impression is verify of hydrologen in the NVE:
The big snømengda in the mountains this year has unusual large vassinnhald, ” explains Inger Karin Engen.
No, my call, she both people and governments to prepare themselves on a wet spring:
– You must all now begin to save away things one is afraid of and not store things too close to the rivers and lakes. The municipalities must also ensure to keep the natural avløpsvegar, as well as kulvertar and kummar open.
VIKAFJELLET: February 2020.
Photo: Ragnhild Myklemyr / NRK Demanding in the middle of the koronakrisa
Asbjørn Lund is beredskapssjef in the County in the Hinterland, and has the responsibility to coordinate the municipalities their beredskapsarbeid. He has his hands full to cope with the koronasituasjonen, but know at the same time that there is a lot of snow in the mountains.
–We are smerteleg clear that we can get more challenges on top of all that we are in now, ” says Lund.
He stated that the County is well prepared to handle a storflaum, but is aware that it can be challenging to get a flaum on the top of the koronakrisa.
–We can potentially get a situation where we have fewer resources available, and key people may become sick or be moved to other tasks. At the same time, we have a great ressursbank we can avail ourselves of. A number of different government enterprises in fylkesberedskapsrådet, for example, Nav, must be used if it should become necessary, says Lund.
Also appointed interim mayor Eldri Siem in the company is worried about with regard to a forthcoming storflaum.
RESTLESS: Eldri Siem is appointed interim mayor in Sel. The municipality was in the early hard struck by koronakrisa, and have had over 1000 people in quarantine.
Photo: Ole Martin Sponberg / NRK
the Municipality in the gudbrandsdal valley is hard struck by koronasmitte, and the situation is demanding both for the apparatus and to most people:
– Now it is about to keep people healthy. We are in the midst of an unlimited time, and if many are old of koronasituasjonen now, can a great vårflaum be properly critical.
the Weather is crucial
According to NVE, it is most probably that vårflaumane starts in the end of april in the larger river in Southern Norway, and from the middle of may in Northern Norway.
But they can come both earlier and later, depending on what the weather will be in the future.
Inger Karin Engen in the NVE refers to the fact that we have had flaumar far out in both June and July in the past.
– It can happen in the year also if the spring is cool.
the Greatest danger for flaum is it if we get varmeperiodar combined with precipitation, ” says Engen.
– Then we can get very large vårflaumar also in the area far down in the river.
But she of her add that, if it is mild vårvêr without heat and precipitation, so it’s probably melting river normal size.
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FLAUM: Frognerstranda Camping at Årnes under water, in 2018
Photo: Cornelius Poppe / NTB scanpix
