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‘Last days of summer’ on way for Sweden

The Swedish summer may not be over yet, with meteorologists predicting one final hurrah later this week after a weekend of torrential rain and even snow in some parts of the country.

Published: 7 September 2015 10:32 CEST
'Last days of summer' on way for Sweden
A road in central Sweden after the Sunday storms. Photo: TT
As the old joke goes, the Swedish summer is the best day of the year.
 
You'd be forgiven for not laughing after an extremely wet weekend that saw hundreds of homes evacuated and soggy weather dominating the agenda in May and July.
 

A road in Kumla, central Sweden, on Sunday. Photo: TT
 
But fear not – meteorologists have forecast a few sunny days towards the end of this week thanks to a high-pressure system that's heading towards much of Sweden.
 
“The high-pressure system is hanging over Ireland right now,” Beate Tveita, meteorologst at Storm, told the Expressen newspaper. “By the end of the week it will come here and bring with it temperatures over 20C”.
 
“This means that the the week will slowly get more and more pleasant with warmer temperatures.”
 
The news will come as a welcome relief to many people in central Sweden after a weekend of torrential rain left many people's homes flooded. 
 

A woman is rescued from her home in Hallsberg, central Sweden, on Sunday. Photo: TT
 
Particularly heavy rainfall in Hallsberg, south of Örebro in central Sweden, saw the local trainlines flooded and cross country rail traffic ground to a halt until early on Monday morning.
 
Around 100 homes in the area were evacuated and several schools remained closed on Monday. The Hallsberg municipality said that the water may not be removed until Wednesday. 
 
Meanwhile, in the far north, winter appears to have arrived already, with the Låktatjåkko mountain station in Swedish Lapland reporting the season's first snowfall on Friday.

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Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

Blizzards in Denmark this week have resulted in the greatest depth of snow measured in the country for 13 years.

Published: 4 January 2024 14:18 CET
Denmark records deepest snow level for 13 years

A half-metre of snow, measured at Hald near East Jutland town Randers, is the deepest to have occurred in Denmark since January 2011, national meteorological agency DMI said.

The measurement was taken by the weather agency at 8am on Thursday.

Around 20-30 centimetres of snow was on the ground across most of northern and eastern Jutland by Thursday, as blizzards peaked resulting in significant disruptions to traffic and transport.

A much greater volume of snow fell in 2011, however, when over 100 centimetres fell on Baltic Sea island Bornholm during a post-Christmas blizzard, which saw as much as 135 centimetres on Bornholm at the end of December 2010.

READ ALSO: Denmark’s January storms could be fourth extreme weather event in three months

With snowfall at its heaviest for over a decade, Wednesday saw a new rainfall record. The 59 millimetres which fell at Svendborg on the island of Funen was the most for a January day in Denmark since 1886. Some 9 weather stations across Funen and Bornholm measured over 50cm of rain.

DMI said that the severe weather now looks to have peaked.

“We do not expect any more weather records to be set in the next 24 hours. But we are looking at some very cold upcoming days,” DMI meteorologist and press spokesperson Herdis Damberg told news wire Ritzau.

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