Power outage Malmo Sweden related to storm

[jan lameer]

Hi

The Dutch press agency ANP reports that Malmoe Sweden had a power outage on Thursday that was felt in 20.000 houses.
Reportedly the power company Sydkraft said on Friday that the solar eruption probably was to blaim ...

Oh well, I'd like to see evidence before I believe it, it is easy to blaim the sun when something goes wrong.
Does anyone know what time the power outage occurred ?

By the way, we had a great show 30 kilometers north of Amsterdam.
The first corona was enormous.
During the 2nd maximum clouds rolled in but aurora was still visible behind a fairly thick cloudcover...

pictures will follow

JanL

[Alex (Linköping)]

Hej Jan,

here a short translation of the following Sydkraft press release:
The solarstorm can be a possible cause for a electrical power outage at thursday evening at 9:00 pm in central and east Malmö. 50.000 customers were out of electricity for 20 to 30 minutes.

The cause is still unclear but it looks like, that the solar storm can be the reason ... (My Swedish is not the best, but I hope that is enough

Alex

Pressmeddelande 31 oktober 2003 (www.sydkraft.se):
Solstormar möjlig orsak till elstörning

Ett strömavbrott inträffade vid 21-tiden på torsdagskvällen i centrala och östra delarna av Malmö. Som mest var 50.000 kunder utan el. Efter omkopplingar i elnätet fick hälften av kunderna strömmen tillbaka efter cirka 20 minuter och resterande efter ytterligare 30 minuter.

Orsaken till strömavbrottet är fortfarande okänd och inget kvarstående fel funnet, men störningar i andra delar av landet kan tyda på ett samband med jordmagnetiska störningar orsakade av solstormar.