These values were measured in Huttwil BE and Affoltern in Emmental BE, as Meteoschweiz wrote on Twitter. According to the railway information service, rail traffic between Burgdorf and Wynigen and Burgdorf and Herzogenbuchsee on the Bern-Olten line was interrupted indefinitely from 7 p.m. due to storm damage.
Pictures on various online media platforms showed flooded gardens in Seftigen BE in the Gürbetal, flooded meadows and streets in Sumiswald BE in the Emmental, Hasle near Burgdorf BE and in Reiden LU. The underpass at Aarau station was also under water.
On Thursday afternoon, two landslides on Lake Thun and Lake Brienz caused restrictions in rail traffic. When the traffic would return to normal was not yet known in the early evening.
The two landslides fell between Spiez and Interlaken and between Oberried and Niederried and caused train cancellations and delays, as the SBB announced on its website.
Danger level 3 (considerable danger) of 4 applied from a line west of Bern to eastern Switzerland and Ticino.
In the past three days, according to a list published by Meteonews on Twitter, more than 100 millimeters of precipitation fell in individual measuring stations. At the top of the ranking are Thierachern BE with 108 millimeters, Aarau AG with 106 millimeters and Gösgen SO with 100 millimeters.
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