Thousands of households in northern Slovenia were left without electricity throughout last night due to damage caused by one of the worst storms the country has experienced in a decade, authorities said today.
“In the last 24 hours, Slovenia has been hit by a storm accompanied by strong winds of up to 150 km/h,” Brane Gregoric, a spokesman for the Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO), told reporters.
The official said this storm, which started last night with snowfall and wind and is forecast to last until this evening, “is a meteorological phenomenon of a duration and intensity not recorded in the last decade”.
According to Slovenian media, the roofs of hundreds of houses and buildings have been destroyed or damaged in the northeastern part of the country, while many roads are impassable and power lines have been damaged by trees uprooted by the winds.
The Maribor city power company said infrastructure repairs are underway to restore power to about 5,000 households still facing outages.
“Conditions are very difficult in some areas, making repairs slower than usual,” the company explained, after announcing early this morning that the storm had left more than 20000 households without electricity in northeastern areas.
International flights to Ljubljana have been cancelled or diverted, according to the capital’s airport management.
