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full screen A rainy summer day in Stockholm in July. Archive image. Photo: Oscar Olsson/TT
The summer weather in 2024 was quite typically Swedish in large parts of Sweden, i.e. unstable.
But in several places, local weather records were broken.
SMHI is ready with a first preliminary summary of the summer weather in 2024. In it, it is stated that there was generally unsettled weather during June and July, while there was more stable weather in August.
In Götaland and Svealand it was a relatively normal summer. But in northern Norrland it was a very hot or even extremely hot summer. At the Lapland stations Karesuando, Abisko and Katterjåkk/Riksgränsen, the old records from 1937 were beaten or touched.
Records were also set in Nikkaluokta, Naimakka, Tarfala and Överkalix-Svartbyn, but those measurement series do not include 1937.
In Kiruna, the summer was the second warmest after 1937.
In all of Sweden, only two tropical days were noted, that is, the daily temperature did not fall below 20 degrees. They occurred at Storön in Norrbotten on July 24-25.
Locally, the summer of 2024 was the wettest in a long time in several places. Norrköping residents had a record rainy summer. There, the old record of 303.4 mm from 2011 was beaten by a narrow margin.
Gällivare experienced the third wettest summer observed there after 1954 and 1961.