Updated 21:27 | Published 21:04
September offered record heat after a wet summer.
Now it’s October – and what will the weather gods bring with them?
Even the meteorologists don’t know that.
– Among the most unsafe I’ve seen, says Christopher Greenland at SMHI.
If you think it’s been unusually warm outside lately, you’re not wrong.
After a summer that was perhaps disappointing in terms of weather, September offered several really warm days.
Parts of southern Sweden have probably had a record-warm September, according to SMHI’s measurements.
Karlshamn had its warmest day so far this year on September 10 – with a whopping 27.1 degrees.
A day earlier, Älvsbyn had 26.4 degrees – and thus beat northern Norrland’s previous September record.
Summer all the way to Skellefteå
The whole of southern Sweden, up to Sälen approximately, still has meteorological summer. The same applies to the Norrland coast right up to the Skellefteå tract. There usually is meteorological autumn at the end of September.
– The fact that several measuring stations have been warmer than normal has been a contributing factor to the fact that autumn has started later, says Christopher Greenland, meteorologist at SMHI.
“Located in the border zone”
When the meteorological autumn can think of creeping downwards in Sweden is unclear.
– Somewhere in the middle of next week, it looks like a bit colder air may make its way over the country from the north. But from the end of next week, the forecast is very uncertain. It’s actually among the most insecure I’ve seen in the material.
Why?
– It has to do with the low pressure development out in the Atlantic which has varied a lot in our latest measurements, says Christopher Greenland.
He explains that it is unclear how much of the warmer air further down in Europe will make it up to us.
– We are in the border zone between warmer air in the south and colder air further north.
Heat wave in Europe
The weather in Europe has also been unusually hot.
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland have all had record warm Septembers, report The Guardian. And the heat looks set to continue.
During the first day of October, for example, Parisians were able to enjoy 28 plus degrees.
And in Montoro in southern Spain, a whopping 35 degrees was measured this weekend. On September 5, 45.7 degrees was recorded in the same place – the highest September temperature ever in Europe.