SMHI announces on its website that Västmanland is one of the counties where there is a risk of large rainfall in connection with the lightning storms that are expected to pull in during the afternoon. According to SMHI, there may be such large amounts of rainfall locally that there can be floods in basements or on roads. The showers can give away between 35-50 mm of rain in a short time.

Without electricity

The night's thunderstorms meant that several areas in the county were without power according to the electricity companies. It announces both Mälarenergi and Vattenfall. Customers in, among others, Arboga, Köping and Hallstahammar municipalities were affected.

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