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full screen If everything goes as planned, Skåne and the west coast will have had seven days in a row of spring temperatures during Wednesday evening. Archive image. Photo: Hasse Holmberg/TT
Spring is on its way and very soon it will also be officially confirmed. Everything points to the fact that parts of southern Sweden during Wednesday evening will have had seven days in a row with a daily average temperature above zero degrees.
– It is underway down in Skåne. We have had spring temperatures there since February 15, says Marie Staerk, meteorologist at SMHI.
From 15 to 17 February, the daily average temperature was above zero even far north of Skåne – in all of Götaland and southern Svealand. But on February 18, it returned to winter temperatures in a large part of inner and eastern Götaland and also the whole of Sveland, so there the counting of days with spring temperatures has to start all over again.
But in Skåne, along the west coast and parts of Blekinge, Öland and Gotland, the sequence of spring days seems to be unbroken. In that case, it will be considered that spring arrived in these parts of the country on February 15.
This is the earliest possible date, since, according to the meteorologists’ way of counting, it cannot be spring before February 15.
The meteorologists’ counting of days runs from 19 o’clock in the evening, in this case from the evening of February 14, and that is why the proclamation of spring can only take place in the evening seven days later.