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full screen Lund received a burst of high summer heat in September. Image from September 4th, which was record hot. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
September offered record heat in Sweden – but also the first snow of the year, according to SMHI’s compilation.
The month of September 2024 may be entered into SMHI’s history books. A new heat record was broken on September 4 when both Lund and Helsingborg measured high summer heat, 31.1 degrees. Such high temperatures have never been measured in Sweden during September before, the weather authority writes in a monthly summary.
Several local station records were also broken in the north, in places such as Piteå (25.7 degrees), Lycksele (26.2) and Abisko (21.9).
September was generally warmer than normal, but cold and frost in the middle of the month dragged down the average. Hoburg on Gotland, on the other hand, looks set to have its second warmest or third warmest September since the measurements started in 1880.
But September also brought the season’s first measurable snow, and Karesuando measured -9.1 degrees this weekend, which is the lowest September temperature in the country since 2019.