The celestial river Gyda pulled over Norway earlier this week with warnings for heavy rainfall and landslides and landslides in the wake of extreme weather.
On the other side of the border, SMHI issued warnings for torrential rain, the high mountain hotel in Storlien was flooded and Jämtland schools had to close because the storm risked causing traffic problems.
Now the World Wide Fund for Nature warns WWF that the positive temperatures in combination with the extreme rainfall can lead to mass deaths among animals in the Swedish and Norwegian mountain areas.
- What has happened in recent years and with climate change is that there is more and more winter rain, says the organization's nature conservation expert Tom Arnbom to TT.
Difficult with crowd
If a hard crowd is formed, animals risk starvation to death as they do not reach the food under the snow.
It is about thousands of foxes and deer that are facing a possible food crisis.
But snow also acts as a storm protection for animals such as grouse, grouse, capercaillies and hares.
- The snow is fantastic when it is soft, it insulates.
But if there are new storms and it is frozen, these animals can not go down and hide.
Then there is a risk that they will freeze to death, says Tom Arnbom.
Another cloud of concern is how it will go for the rodents and other small animals that live in the space between the ground and the snow during the winter.
If the water that has now run down to the ground freezes, they will not be able to access their food either.
Sami villages seek support
It is not just wild animals that are affected.
The lack of grazing for the reindeer has meant that many Sami villages in northern Sweden this winter have applied for financial support, so-called disaster damage protection, from the Sami Parliament.
- The reindeer not only have difficulty accessing the food, they also have difficulty smelling it.
The other day, a reindeer herder said that he had been allowed to use an ax to get through the crowd, says Tom Arnbom.