The Swedish island of Gotland has never before recorded such high temperatures in the month of May.
Weather records for Visby, the main town on Gotland, go back more than 150 years.
“Yesterday, Visby had 27.9C which is the highest temperature in May since the start in 1859,” meteorologist Magdalena Folestad told Swedish public broadcaster P4 Gotland about the weather on Tuesday.
There’s still some way to go before Gotland’s all-time weather record, any month, is broken. On August 8th, 1975, the mercury climbed to 35.2C in the village of Buttle.
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A heatwave is set to engulf large parts of Sweden this week, from Jönköping in the south to Örnsköldsvik in the north-east.
Temperatures of 25-30C in the eastern half of that region, including Stockholm, are expected.
Swedish weather agency SMHI has issued a warning of high temperatures from Tuesday onwards, saying the heatwave could cause “increased stress on the body. Risk highest for those with underlying health problems.”
It’s not yet clear just how long the heatwave will stick around.
“It currently looks like it’ll hang around until Friday, after that we’ll have to wait and see,” SMHI meteorologist Kristin Sahlström told the TT newswire.
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