Norway’s Most Powerful Storm in Over 30 Years Rips Roofs Off Houses, Cuts Power

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Norway’s most powerful storm in more than three decades ripped off roofs, heightened avalanche risks, canceled flights, and cut power as it raged in parts of the Scandinavian country Thursday. Hurricane-force winds brought gusts of up to 180 kilometers (112 miles) per hour in some places. A new national wind speed record of 195.8 kilometers per hour (121.7 miles per hour) was recorded locally early Thursday on the island of Soemma, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said. Near Laerdal, a small, picturesque town northeast of Bergen, Norway’s second-largest city, a bus with 14 passengers was blown off a road, though no injuries were reported, police said....