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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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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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