During Monday morning, the temperature reached 14 degrees in Gothenburg. It is the highest temperature that has been measured in Sweden so late in the year, according to SMHI.
– To find something similar when we have had such high temperatures, you have to go back to 1906, on November 23-24, when Västervik in Småland had just 14 degrees, says meteorologist Ulrika Elvgren.
Several temperature records in Europe
Last week there was a blizzard and freezing temperatures in several parts of the country, but on Sunday mild air flowed in from the west. Ulrika Elvgren says that temperature records have now been broken in several places in Europe.
– There are large amplitudes, from having been a rather cold week with snow far down in the country and also snow in Europe, we have had a huge turnaround, she says and continues:
– It is not only here in Sweden that we have experienced exceptionally high temperatures, but temperature records have also been broken in other countries in Europe, including Denmark.
Local records
Local temperature records were also broken for the measuring stations in Uppsala, Linköping and Halmstad during the day. Ulrika Elvgren says, however, that it is difficult to link individual weather events to factors such as climate change.
– A certain number of weather events is required to be able to ascertain climate change. But in a climate change, as the climate scientists predict, there should be room for more warm periods, so in that case it would go hand in hand with that, she says.
The high temperatures for the season, however, look set to turn already during Tuesday.
– There will be a return already tomorrow. The temperature has already dropped again, so it was briefly up to those degrees, says Ulrika Elvgren.