Both bridges were closed to traffic in both directions just before at 4 in the night.

– the Wind is in almost directly from the north and the blowing thus on across the Oresund and the great belt, said the on-duty meteorologist Henning Gisselø at the Danish Meteorological Institute.

It is unclear when the Storebæltsbroen can open again, but it will at least happen in the course of the morning.

Also in Sweden creates the storm Alfrida problems. Many nedblåste trees located over the roads, and in the morning was 97 000 households without power.