In Lithuania, there’s a harmful snow frenzy, and there have been painful accidents

To the bare eye, it appears that evidently it’s snowing fairly intensively and abundantly within the capital – the snowfall is so heavy that it’s troublesome to see the Tv Tower within the capital.

15min picture/Visitors within the heart of Vilnius through the snow

Nevertheless, the radar data of the Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service exhibits one thing else – mild precipitation prevails within the nation, however it’s doubtless that it’s going to snow much more intensively.

15min picture/A bus slipped within the heart of Vilnius, close to Kudirka Sq.

Based on the precipitation forecast map, it’s at present snowing virtually everywhere in the nation, apart from Western Lithuania, the place the snow began the earliest, and essentially the most ample snow falls round Marijampolė, Kaunas, and Ukmergė.

Within the night, clouds filled with precipitation will transfer down from Biržai and can attain Vilnius round 19:00, which can even have an effect on Southern Lithuania.

Nevertheless, in the course of the night time, round 3 o’clock, it ought to cease snowing, however the snow will return to Lithuania on Saturday night and transfer from Klaipėda to Vilnius.

Sends a warning to drivers

Within the nation, because of the persevering with blended precipitation, the site visitors circumstances are extra difficult in lots of districts of the nation, particularly within the districts of Ariogala and Prienai. State roads are moist, damp, and slippery in locations as a consequence of naked ice, based on the Directorate of Vehicle Roads.

In the remainder of the nation, the surfaces of the primary roads are principally moist or damp, rutted in locations, lined with a layer of fallen snow. Highway surfaces of decrease depth state significance are moist, rutted, lined with ice, compressed, free or fallen snow, which in some locations reaches as much as 10 cm.

Highway security mechanisms are engaged on the roads, however drivers are requested to decide on a secure velocity, not the utmost permissible velocity, and to concentrate to harmful highway sections and cut back velocity in entrance of them, ie intersections, forest clearings, in addition to to watch out when driving over bridges and overpasses.

Air temperature from 5 to 10 levels of chilly, within the western areas round 0.

Based on the hydrometeorological service, blended precipitation will prevail in lots of locations through the night time. Bald in locations. Wind 8-13 m/s. The bottom air temperature is between 3 and 10 levels of frost.

Movies displaying very troublesome site visitors circumstances are already circulating on social networks.

Extreme accidents

Based on the police division, one tragic accident occurred round 4:24 p.m. Panevėžys bypass.

5 vehicles and two vehicles collided through the site visitors accident.

The truck driver, born in 1955, was dropped at the hospital and died there after resuscitation.

A spokesperson for the police division 15min stated that since 13:00, 23 accidents have been registered, by which 5 folks had been injured, three of whom had been kids.

These are solely creditable site visitors incidents, excluding technical collisions, throughout which neither the police nor medics are wanted, based on pagalbox.