Thursday and Friday will see rain and showers with a risk that large amounts can fall in areas in Västernorrland that have already been severely affected, according to a yellow warning from SMHI. A total of 30–50 millimeters of rain may fall, which is clearly less than last weekend when around 100 millimeters fell and locally even more.
We have taken into account that so much rain has already fallen in this area previously. Had it not been so, it would probably not have been a warning there now, says Mattias Lind, meteorologist at SMHI.
Thursday is expected to be relatively calm in the area, but the bad weather is expected to worsen on Friday.
There are some showers during the day, but then we have a more coherent rain area that reaches this area late in the evening or at night.
High flows
A yellow warning has also been issued for high flows in the Moälven in Örnsköldsvik municipality, where the weekend's heavy rainfall is moving downstream in Anundsjöån and causing rising flows. It is around this area that the municipality has identified increased risks of flooding, from Bredbyn down to Mellansel.
During Thursday morning, however, the situation is still calm, according to Linus Jogedal, commander at the rescue service on site at the fire station in Örnsköldsvik.
A reinforcement resource from the Swedish Agency for Support and Preparedness (MSB) arrived on Wednesday with containers containing 2,000 meters of barriers, a high-capacity pump, and two sandbag machines.
Analyses are being carried out all the time, so we need to check how the situation changes during the night, says Jogedal about how they may come to use the material from MSB.
Major floods
Up to 100 millimeters of rain fell in a short time on Sunday and mainly affected Härnösand, Kramfors, Sollefteå, and Örnsköldsvik. About 40 roads were damaged or washed away, and two trains derailed. The rain has caused major flooding, including in Kubbe outside Örnsköldsvik, where large parts of the village were underwater.
