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Next week’s forecast: Snow and sub-zero temperatures expected in almost all of Sweden

Next week will likely be both white and cold in almost all of Sweden.

Published: 3 December 2022 11:12 CET
Stockholm
In a number of places in Sweden, temperatures are expected to be just around ten degrees below zero. Photo by Jon Flobrant / Unsplash

“We can expect sub-zero temperatures across most of the country,” Therese Fougman at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) stated.

After a period of milder weather, a white winter seems to be on its way. According to the SMHI, residents in most parts of the country can expect both snowfall and freezing temperatures during the next week.

Snowfall

Generally speaking, snowfall is expected during the middle of the week.

“It will probably be a few centimetres (of snow). It probably won’t snow everywhere, but large parts of Norrland look set to get some of it, as well as Svealand and Götaland. It may actually snow all the way down towards Skåne and southern Halland,” Fougman said.

“The forecast I have now extends until the Monday before Lucia. According to it, it looks like the snow will be here to stay. But what will actually happen remains to be seen,” she added.

Sub-zero temperatures

In a number of places in Sweden, such as Dalarna, temperatures are expected to be just around ten degrees below zero.

“It looks like there could be a bit of a weather change now, with temperatures below normal next week,” Fougman warned.

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Sweden’s far north just had one of its hottest summers on record

New stats from state weather agency SMHI have revealed that, despite rain, wind and low temperatures in some areas, the far north of Sweden saw record-breaking heat this summer.

Published: 3 September 2024 14:29 CEST
Updated: 3 September 2024 16:41 CEST
Sweden's far north just had one of its hottest summers on record

In Götaland and Svealand – central and southern Sweden, temperatures were roughly the same this summer as they were between 1991 and 2020. 

However, the average summer temperature was hotter further north. In northern Norrland, temperatures were “very warm, or even extreme,” the weather agency said in a statement.

Karesuando, Abisko and Katterjåkk/Riksgränsen weather stations, which have all carried out temperature measurements for over 110 years, all either broke or neared their previous temperature records, set in 1937.

Records were also broken at weather stations which started recording temperatures after 1937, like Nikkaluokta, Naimakka, Tarfala, all in Lappland, and Överkalix-Svartbyn in Norrbotten.

Kiruna saw the second hottest summer since 1937, and Pajala and Luleå, which both started recording temperatures in 1944, saw their hottest summers since 2002.

Despite this, the hottest temperature this summer was reported in Uppsala, where the mercury hit 32 degrees C on June 28th. Ljusnedal in Jämtland saw the coldest summer temperature: just -2.4C on June 7th.

That may sound low, but according to the agency it’s a “very high minimum temperature” for the summer season. The last time a similarly high temperature was measured during the summer was in 2022, when temperatures dropped to -2.2 degrees in Latnivaara in Lappland.

The only tropical days in the country – days where temperatures didn’t drop below 20C – were also recorded in Norrland, on June 24th and 25th.

In other areas of the country, like Norrköping and Gällivare, the summer months were wetter than usual, with the former breaking a record set in 2011. Gällivare saw the third rainiest summer since records began, just behind the summers of 1954 and 1961.

Gladhammar, in eastern Småland, saw the rainiest single summer day, with 88.8mm of rain falling on July 13th.

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