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Spring arrives in southern Sweden with record-breaking temperatures

It is now officially spring in Skåne, and a record high February temperature has been recorded in Kalmar.

Spring arrives in southern Sweden with record-breaking temperatures
Snowdrops and Winter Aconites photographed in Malmö on Thursday. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

The map of spring's arrival on the website of Sweden's state weather forecaster SMHI shows that spring (green) has now crept up a thin strip of land along the coast:

Meanwhile, a temperature of 16.8C was recorded in Kalmar, Småland, something SMHI meteorologist Jon Järpeland put down to the 'Föhn effect', a warm wind created when air has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes. It's a new temperature record for the month of February.

“We've been hit by some really warm air,” he told the TT newswire, adding that the warmth would stay for several days.

“It might not be quite as warm as it is now, but it's going to be above freezing and relatively mild.”

The Föhn effect happens when moisture-laden air passes the highlands of Småland. Austria, Switzerland and southern Germany all have a warmer climate, because wind from the Mediterranean creates a Föhn effect after crossing the Alps.

The Local's editor Emma Löfgren marked the changing seasons in central Sweden with a tweet.

Sweden's TT newswire have today posted up photos of spring flowers in Malmö:

A woman photographing the spring flowers in Malmö. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

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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.

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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