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            <title><![CDATA[Low groundwater levels drive surge in well drilling across southern Sweden]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Low groundwater levels have caused many wells to dry up. Concern about water supplies is keeping well-drilling companies busy. “There is significantly more work than usual,” says Mattias Gustafsson, CEO of the industry organization Borrföretagen.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:30:22 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Very high fire risk across large parts of Sweden as hot, dry weather continues]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The hot and dry weather has caused a very high fire risk in large parts of the country, and in some areas an extremely high one.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:10:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SMHI expands forest fire warning to almost all of Norrland coast]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[SMHI is drastically expanding its alert regarding the risk of forest and land fires. Starting Tuesday, almost the entire Norrland coast will be affected, and during the week the fire risk area may cover an even larger area in the north.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:07:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Severe thunderstorm sweeps Sweden with more than 10,000 lightning strikes]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A severe thunderstorm swept across the country on Sunday, with more than 10,000 lightning strikes recorded. The worst hit was in the southern part of the country.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:21:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Forest owners after storm Johannes: catastrophic damage]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Storm Johannes caused great devastation for forest owners in the hardest-hit areas. In its core area, it was a catastrophic storm, says Fredrik Munter, CEO of the Mellanskog association.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:36:39 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SMHI issues red warning for extreme amounts of snow in parts of Gävleborg]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The start of 2026 will be cold with heavy snowfall. SMHI has issued a series of weather warnings. In parts of Gävleborg, a red warning - the highest warning level - is in effect for "extremely large amounts of snow". Households risk being completely isolated, says Viktor Bergman, meteorologist at SMHI.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:25:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Heavy snowfall delays power restoration]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Heavy snowfall is expected across southern Norrland on New Year's Day. For thousands of customers without power in Gävleborg County, the snowy weather could mean it takes even longer to have their power restored. Jonatan Björck at Ellevio says, "This snowfall is very poorly timed."]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:52:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Storm Johannes stops buses and trains in Gästrikland]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:24:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Man Arrested in Gävle for Suspected Gang-Related Murder]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A man has been detained, suspected of having shot and killed a young man in Gävle and shot and injured another. The police are linking Saturday's deed to gang crime and have requested reinforcements from outside. It is infected in these environments, says police chief Temo Allenbäck.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:38:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dry Winter Leaves Southern Sweden with Critically Low Groundwater Levels]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Groundwater levels in southern Sweden are unusually low, reports P4 Malmöhus. Unusually little precipitation during the winter has meant that water reservoirs have not been replenished as they usually are.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:10:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fire Risk Warning in Southern Sweden: Avoid Lighting Fires]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There is a risk of fire in half of Sweden and several fires have spread from controlled burnings over the weekend. Refrain from burning, says Henrik Eriksson, at Gästrike rescue service.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 08:27:18 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Reinfeldt Challenged - He Wants to Become the New Chairman]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The Swedish Football Association's chairman Fredrik Reinfeldt gets an opponent candidate at the annual meeting in March. Simon Åström, chairman of Swedish Elite Football, is nominated as a candidate for the chairman post.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[TV Pirates Forced to Pay 113 Million]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 16:10:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[App guides to a runestone near you]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Even for the initiated, it can sometimes be difficult to find one of Sweden's approximately 2,000 runestones. Thanks to the Runestone App, it will be easier to find them.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2024 16:41:34 GMT</pubDate>
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