The first snow has fallen. In 2024 it was in Lapland, specifically Kvikkjokk, where many woke up to the first snowfall of the year.
Already before last weekend there were reports that the snow was coming, something that can easily be interpreted as unusual as we are only in September. But which is in fact within the normal time span.
– Historically, the first snow usually falls around October. In the southern parts of the country, we will probably have to wait until November, December before the snow can settle on the slopes, said SMHI’s meteorologist Linnea Rehn Wittskog to News24.
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This week it has also contained increasingly colder air in several places around the country and it is fair to say that we will not get any more summer weather.
Nyheter24 has spoken to SMHI again to find out how the week is developing and if any more snow is on the way.
– It is rather low-pressure weather with several areas of rain that will pass over the country. It varies depending on where in the country you are, says Sofia Söderberg and continues:
– Now we have a large area of rain over northern Sweden, mainly in the mountain range, with elements of snow that will already fall during the night towards Thursday. Then it moves away north from Sweden.
But it is not only in the Swedish mountains that the snow will fall tomorrow.
– In Härjedalen, snow can also fall during the night towards Thursday and later in the week a new area of rain moves in from the south, starting from Götaland, she explains.
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The alternating low pressures also bring with them cold air which causes temperatures to stay around 10-15 degrees in the south.
However, it gets colder further up the country.
– The temperatures are still lower around 10-15 in the south, between 5-10 degrees in the north and 0-5 degrees in the mountain areas.
When the weekend is around the corner, another area of rain will enter over Svealand, which will bring cold air with it again.
– Colder air advances from the northwest with sun interspersed with a lot of clouds. In the north of the country, some snow flurries can move in over pretty much the entire mountain range.
The sun will also be visible, albeit occasionally, in the south. Then with temperatures slightly lower than during the weekdays, around 7-12 degrees at most, explains Söderberg.
– In the highlands around the mountain areas, it can be a few degrees below zero.
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