Wind & Gusts

The next week of wind and gusts at Reine on the Beaufort scale — what closes the road, the ferry and the fjord crossing — with the official channels that make those calls.

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Day

Max wind

Max gust

Monday 12 October

26 km/h

38 km/h · breezy

Tuesday 13 October

51 km/h

71 km/h · gale

Wednesday 14 October

50 km/h

92 km/h · violent

Thursday 15 October

56 km/h

130 km/h · violent

Friday 16 October

57 km/h

130 km/h · violent

Saturday 17 October

29 km/h

66 km/h · gale

Sunday 18 October

49 km/h

120 km/h · violent

The wind here

The windy half of the year

The Gulf Stream keeps Reine mild for 68° north, but it buys that mildness with weather: autumn and winter here are wet and very windy, with Atlantic lows arriving one after another. The summer months are the calm ones, which is why a strong-wind day in July reads differently from the same numbers in January.

Where the wind bites first

The stretch of E10 between Reine and Hamnøy is bridges and open water on both sides, and it is the first thing a Reine driver notices in a blow. Wind is one of the three things — with rockslide and avalanche — that shuts the only road, and it is also what stops the Bodø ferry and the little passenger boat across the Reinefjord.

Reinebringen is a separate question

The stone staircase is chained shut for the avalanche season, roughly October to the end of April, and has had extra closures beyond that. Wind on this page says nothing about whether the steps are open or sensible; that is the seasonal closure and the avalanche forecast, not a gust number.

Before the wind, and when it hits

Before a blow: tie down or bring in anything on a deck or a quay — furniture, tarpaulins, the trampoline, a small boat's cover. Things that leave a garden in a gale end up in someone's window.

Check Statens vegvesen at vegvesen.no/trafikk before driving the E10, and Torghatten Nord before setting out for the Moskenes ferry. A cancelled sailing is decided by the operator, never by a forecast.

If you are on the water or planning to be, the wind number that matters is the one at your crossing, not the one in the village. Ask locally.

Emergencies: 110 fire, 112 police, 113 ambulance. Non-urgent medical help is the legevakt on 116117; the nearest hospital is at Gravdal on Vestvågøy.

The official channels

MET Norway — weather warnings (yr.no)The national meteorological institute issues Norway's official wind warnings. This page is a plain forecast, not a warning service.

Statens vegvesen — E10 traffic messagesThe only authority on whether the road is open.

Varsom — avalanche, landslide and flood warningsNVE's daily danger levels for Lofoten og Vesterålen, region 3014.

Reis Nordland — ferry and bus service messagesCancellations for weather are announced by the operator, not forecast here. Route information is 177 within Norway.