Strong wind ravages Lithuania: fallen trees fell on roads and cars, a large tree fell on a house in Pagėgii

15min In the photos sent by readers in Klaipėda, one huge linden tree blocked the street, and elsewhere the tree fell into the yard of a homestead.

15min reader’s photo/The tree fell in the yard of the homestead

In Šilute district, Šilininkai, a fallen tree blocked the entire road.

15min reader’s photo/A fallen tree blocked the road in Šilininkai (Šilutė district)

15min reader’s photo/A big tree blocked a street in Klaipėda

15min reader Gintautas Petrauskas shares a photo and video from Pagėgii – there a huge tree fell on a residential house.

Photo by 15min reader Gintautas Petrauskas/A tree fell on a house in Pagėgiai

12 thousand people do not have electricity. users

15min reader’s photo/In Vilnius, Šeškinė, the wind overturned a tree on Saturday

Energy Distribution Operator (ESO) managed to restore electricity supply to thousands of consumers within a few hours on Saturday evening.

“It was possible to restore the electricity supply to tens of thousands of consumers in just a few hours in the face of very strong winds,” – BNS before 21:00. reported ESO representative Rasa Juodkienė.

Currently, about 12 thousand people do not have electricity. users, although there are more than 1.6 thousand failures.

“Especially many lines were repaired in the Alytus region, which until recently was simply devastated by the wind. Currently, ESO is trying to restore electricity here to 1.8 thousand people. users, and just a few hours ago this number exceeded six and then four thousand disconnected users,” she said.

According to ESO, more than 2.8 thousand people in the Utena region still do not have electricity. users, and Vilnius – 3.4 thousand, Kaunas – 1683 users, and Alytus – 1889 users.

Panevėžys region remains the least affected – there are 532 consumers without electricity, Klaipėda – 1022, and Šiauliai region – 1132 consumers.

Most of the time, trees falling due to strong winds and breaking branches cut power lines.

According to her, on Saturday, more than 15 thousand were recorded simultaneously. failures.

10 ships are stuck in the port

Ship traffic in Klaipėda port is still restricted due to high winds (as of Friday 7:30 p.m.), 10 ships are stuck.

“At the moment, four ships want to enter the port, and six want to leave,” Port Authority representative Ignė Rotautaitė-Pukenė told BNS.

According to her, the wind speed is 19 meters per second.

So far, no incidents have been recorded – the waves did not harm the ships, they were not damaged.

Firefighters and rescuers went to more than 300 calls

From 6 o’clock in the morning until 6 p.m. fire-rescuers received 293 calls.

“And plus or minus 50 more departures until now (around 7:30 p.m. – BNS),” Dainius Vedrickas, representative of the Situation Coordination Department of the Fire Protection and Rescue Department, informed BNS.

“The central and western parts of Lithuania feel the wind the most,” he said.

In Vilnius, on Muitinės Street, a tree obstructed even four cars

Rescuers were called 40 times in Klaipėda counties, Kaunas – 53, Alytus – 33, Šiauliai – 35 times. In other regions, rescuers received fewer calls.

In 10 cases, trees fell on cars and damaged them, for example, in Vilnius, a tree blocked even four cars on Muitinės Street. Several cars were damaged in Kaunas and one in Taurage.

Nine cases were recorded when trees cut power lines or fell on buildings. In the Anykščiai district, a large birch fell on top of a sauna.

According to Vedrick, no one was hurt.

You will have to watch out for very strong winds during the weekend

As reported Orai.lton Saturday, a strong west, northwest wind will blow, gusts will reach 15-20 m/s, in some places even 21-26 m/s, and on the coast in the first half of the day the wind will occasionally blow up to 28-30 m/s. A mass of colder air will move into the country, but during the day the temperature will still be able to rise to 11-16 degrees, but in the evening the weather will start to cool down rapidly.

On Sunday, the weather will be determined by the same cyclone. At night, the cloudiness will be unstable, it will only rain briefly in places, and a few wet snowflakes or snow flakes may also appear in some places. The wind from the west and north-west will decrease slightly, gusts will only reach 15-20 m/s in places, up to 23 m/s on the coast. As the mass of colder air flows in, the temperature will drop rapidly, in the morning it will be 2-7 degrees, the seashore will be 8-10 degrees, and frosts of 0-3 degrees are expected on the ground surface.

On Sunday, the clouds will thicken and thicken, in the afternoon and in the afternoon there will be short rains in many places, wet snowflakes or snow flakes may fall in some places. The west, north-west wind will strengthen again, gusts will reach 15-20 m/s in many places, the wind will gust up to 21-24 m/s in places, up to 27 m/s on the coast. The mass of colder air that flooded the country will not allow the temperature to rise above 6-11 degrees.