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Swedes to bask in unusual October warmth

Temperatures across Sweden are expected to rise considerably over the weekend and through next week.

Published: 6 October 2018 16:30 CEST
Swedes to bask in unusual October warmth
Warm temperatures will accompany the autumn colours. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT
“The whole country will get it,” Alexandra Ohlsson, a meteorologist at national weather agency SMHI, said. 
 
Swedes in the southeastern part of the country were enjoying the higher temperatures already on Saturday.
 
The arrival of an Indian summer will then spread throughout the rest of the nation – albeit by a different name. Indian summer is known in Swedish as Brittsommar, named after Saint Bridget of Sweden (Swedish: den heliga Birgitta, or Britt for short), whose national day is on Sunday. 
 
“We have hot air that will blow over the country during the day [on Saturday]. There is a chance that we’ll see 17 degrees in the southeastern parts of Götaland,” Ohlsson said. 
 
The high temps will spread throughout Sweden as the work week gets underway, thanks to hot air moving in from the region around Spain, Portugal and northern Africa.
 
“It can be 14 to 17 degrees in several locations, even warmer in the southernmost parts,” Oholsson said. 
 
The highest temperatures are predicted for Kalmar, the pretty city on Sweden’s south-east coast, where SMHI is calling for highs of 19C on Wednesday.

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Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Summer is finally here! Or least it is if you live in southern Norway, where a warm front coming up from Europe will bring t-shirt temperatures of 20C by Thursday, according to forecasts.

Published: 30 April 2024 08:42 CEST
Norway to get a taste of summer with 20C days this week

Warm air from southern Europe will combine with a high pressure zone which will bring clear skies and sunshine, with summery weather coming towards the end of the week, Norway’s national weather forecaster Yr has reported. 

“Thursday and Friday especially will be nice,” Ingrid Villa, a meteorologist at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, told the public broadcaster NRK. “Then we will probably get temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius in some places.” 

Patches of 20C warmth are expected both in western Norway around Bergen and in Western Norway around Oslo, with the area around Tromsø expected to have slightly cooler weather, although Villa said that “it will absolutely be something like summer there too”. 

The warm sunny weather is, however, expected to pass northern Norway by, with grey overcast skies expected for much of this week. 

But if you think summer has come to Norway to stay, you risk disappointment as much cooler temperatures are expected next week.  

“There’s nothing unusual in getting an early taste of summer in April and the start of May, and then we can quickly go back to cooler more spring-like weather,” Villa said. 

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