Icy roads, Microsoft outage and ice shortage

On Friday morning there is a risk of icy, snowy or icy roads in East Jutland, and at the same time, several of Microsoft's services are down in large parts of the world – including in Denmark. In Aarhus, young ice hockey players have to train early in the morning and late at night, because the city has only a single ice rink.

Smooth roads on Friday morning – sunshine later in the day

After the season’s first snowfall on Thursday, TV 2 Vejr reported forecasts of further snowfall in several places in East Jutland, and according to DMI (the Danish Meteorological Institute), there is a risk of icy, snowy or slippery roads in the early hours of this Friday. East Jutland Police urges drivers on Friday morning to exercise extra caution in the morning traffic and recommends slowing down and keeping an eye on the distance to vehicles stopped in traffic.

Friday will otherwise be a beautiful but windy day. Along the Jutland west coast, there may be gusts of storm-force winds, while the rest of the country will experience fresh to strong winds from the west. The sun will come out nicely, and most people can expect dry weather throughout the day. Temperatures may locally drop to around freezing point in the early hours, before reaching highs of between 7 and 9 degrees later in the afternoon. TV 2 Østjylland · TV 2 Østjylland

Teacher swaps the classroom for the fire engine

A teacher at Mølleskolen in Ry teaches pupils every day, but when the alarm goes off, he swaps the classroom for the fire engine. He is also a part-time firefighter and has to be able to reach the fire station within 5 minutes – and therefore has to leave his pupils in the middle of the lesson. TV 2 Østjylland

Microsoft outage also affects East Jutland

Several of Microsoft’s products, such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot, have been affected by a major outage across large parts of the world – including Denmark and East Jutland. According to the news agency AFP, the outage has affected government agencies in Australia, Japan and the USA, as well as companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic, and on Friday it affected the working day in Asia. According to the monitoring service Downdetector, the outage is affecting users in 74 different countries.

According to Microsoft, the problems are due to “increased load” on the infrastructure, and the company says the outage was not caused by a cybersecurity breach. Microsoft states that it has made adjustments to the affected servers, but that this has not led to a lasting improvement. Microsoft 365 is a cloud subscription service where files and programs are stored on the internet rather than on the user’s own computer. Outlook has been affected by the outage since Thursday evening and throughout the night to Friday, affecting tens of thousands of users. TV 2 Østjylland · TV 2 Østjylland · TV 2 Østjylland

Aarhus is short on ice for young hockey players

Interest in ice hockey is strong in Aarhus, but the city has only a single skating rink, which means that teams have to train early in the morning and late in the evening just to get time on the ice. A 15-year-old player on the U16 team, who attends 9th grade, trains 4 times a week and is either at the rink from 6.15 in the morning or so late that she does not get home until around 23.00.

According to the 15-year-old, this has major consequences, because she does not get enough sleep – and the headline of the story is that she misses school because of the lack of ice. While the women's ice hockey teams are playing the World Championship in Herning, young hockey hopefuls in Aarhus thus have to fight for ice time. DR Nyheder Østjylland

A marengs tradition at Netto in Randers

It started with a helping hand to find cat food on the supermarket shelves. It later developed into longer conversations between a 26-year-old shop assistant and an elderly married couple, whom he now calls his “Netto parents-in-law.” The 78-year-old woman and her husband have now made it a regular tradition to give him a bag of homemade marengs when he is working at the local Netto in Randers.

A member survey conducted by HK Handel in 2025 shows that 83 percent of all shop assistants experience negative comments in connection with their work. Mette Høgh, chair of HK Handel, calls this “completely unacceptable,” but stresses that many customers also appreciate shop assistants. The 26-year-old hopes that both employees and customers will increasingly take the time to look each other in the eye. TV 2 Østjylland

Comedian cancels all shows in 2026

East Jutland comedian Rasmus Wallbridge is cancelling and postponing all his scheduled shows for the rest of 2026. He announced this on Thursday on Instagram. The message comes after massive debate about the TV 2 programme "Alle Elsker Rasmus" (Everybody Loves Rasmus), which has since been removed from TV 2 Play. TV 2 Østjylland

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