Roads in several locations in Denmark remain underwater as of Wednesday morning after very heavy rain on Monday and Tuesday, but drier weather is on the way.
The Danish Roads Directorate (Vejdirektoratet) says it is still working to clear roads after two days of severe rain.
The agency’s traffic updates map shows several disruptions caused by water on the road at the time of writing. Falster and western Zealand are the worst-affected areas.
These include a closed lane on the E20 motorway between junctions 41 and 40b near Ringsted, with puddles on the motorway continuing until junction 42. National route 23 near Kalundborg is also affected by water on the road surface.
The island of Falster, which was particularly badly affected by the weather, is also showing traffic disruptions in several locations.
“Drive in accordance with the conditions while we work to get things cleared up,” the directorate said in a post on social media X.
Monday and Tuesday saw dangerous weather alerts issued by meteorological agency DMI, such was the volume of the downpours.
Some parts of the country, including Jutland and the Copenhagen area, were less affected than initially feared, but Lolland-Falster, Møn, Funen and western Zealand saw massive rainfall.
Over 100 millimetres of rain fell on Funen and Lolland-Falster and almost 150 millimetres hit popular summer trekking destination Møn. Both those totals are well in excess of the normal average rainfall for the entire month of July, which is 65.8 millimetres.
DMI’s weather alerts were lifted on Tuesday evening.
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While the worst of the rain has now passed over Denmark, scattered showers are still expected on Wednesday, particularly in Jutland, DMI meteorologist Klaus Larsen told news wire Ritzau on Wednesday morning.
“The front that brought heavy rain over the past few days has now moved south of the country and eased off.
“There will still be showers during the day, but they’ll be nowhere near as intense as those in recent days,” he said.