Pictures are from Malmö and Trelleborg and the trainroute between them. It was so dry there, i never was in a location this dry, crazy! And it were 28°C and full sun, at 7.th September.
Is this normal? I thought Sweden would be cold, wet, windy, rainy, clouds and instead its hardcore Summer.
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1fc3r52
by Urkern
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If you want “cold, wet, windy, rainy, clouds” try again in the fall/winter, we have summers up north too and this one has been quite warm.
It has been effing [HOT ](https://www.google.com/search?q=heat+temps+europe&newwindow=1&client=firefox-b-d&sca_esv=c4c1450a5839235a&sca_upv=1&udm=2&biw=1440&bih=657&sxsrf=ADLYWILZXUsd8AjEfWXfA0FOpHtSkvKE8g%3A1725819134735&ei=_ujdZsPALNCL9u8P0MyMmAU&ved=0ahUKEwjDt-Oj-bOIAxXQhf0HHVAmA1MQ4dUDCBA&oq=heat+temps+europe&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiEWhlYXQgdGVtcHMgZXVyb3BlSP0XUKYHWMUPcAF4AJABAJgBNaABZqoBATK4AQzIAQD4AQGYAgCgAgCYAwCIBgGSBwCgB1o&sclient=gws-wiz-serp)this summer in Europe especially inland.
There’s this global phenomenon called “climate change” that basically changes the climate.
Many places in Finland are dry as well, some spots even in my own yard. There are (relatively) long periods of no rain, or just quick showers which don’t hydrate the soil very well.
And based on my own experiences, the material below the soil matters. If it’s sand or rougher, water passes quite quickly throught it, leaving the topsoil dry. Wheras if it’s clay or something other that’s dense, the water cannot drain away so quickly, and there’s more time for it to be absorbed in the topsoil.
Because precipitation is not the same as temperature.
It’s a record hot summer in Sweden. Interestingly, latitude doesn’t always determine rainfall. For example, the North Pole is very dry. While it appears wet, most of the precipitation is in the form of snow, which rarely melts. In fact, the North Pole is classified as a desert because it experiences very little precipitation.
Your city in northern Germany probably has a river running nearby? That keeps the plants going when it isn’t raining.
Much of Canada’s arctic and subarctic are desert, in the technical sense of very little rain or snow. Northern doesn’t necessarily equal ocean climate. Anyway. It’s been a hot summer, hasn’t it?
Because “more north” does not equal “more wet”?
Welcome to this world.
Here is a short briefing on the world’s most critical problems: Climate change. Global warming.
Dude, global warming. I live in Southern Estonia, here lately so dry and hot – there is no even mushrooms this year
Coastal Sweden is sunnier and drier than people from classical western Europe think, the lows from the UK slowly lose some moisture as it pass over the low countries, Germany and Denmark and as it feels it’s way into the Baltic basin it’s like it forgets the coast of the peninsula and instead go all out assault on the Smålands highlands.
Western Småland have annual rainfall of 1100, Öland see just 430 mm a few hours away.
For example there is a type of biome in east Sweden called [Alvar](https://youtu.be/A1lMg5Dz7LI?si=BE2QERytV1HRUipn), it’s classified as steppe and some plants and insects from Crimea and Greece/Antolia are found in the Alvar lands, but not anywhere in between for 2000km.
Other factors may incl the sun stay up so late and rise early that it prevent the formation of proper dew in Scandinavia, the nation is a peninsula so drying winds is definitely a thing, many coastal cities in the south is built on very sandy soil.
And ofc sometimes it’s just dry for a few weeks.
It’s dew to all the bad humor, it leaves and everything dry.
Droughts happen everywhere. One summer when I was a kid, we had one in northern Norway. All the lawns were yellow, perhaps even worse than in your photos.
I remember Bulgaria 20 years ago – it would be all green and fresh until mid-end August. Now hell begins in June.
Yep, normal. Grass looks yellow/dead towards the end of summer. Little precipitation. Long summer days. Warm.
Ask Greta
Depends on the weather. It’s normal for the grass to be dry at the end of summer, but it’s not like this in Gothenburg this year for example, because we’ve had regular rainfall all throughout summer.
The fact that it’s high summer heat in September is not at all normal, that kind of temperature is typical in July/August (usually at least a couple of weeks each year) but not in September.
It’s going to rain tomorrow.
Same in Finland. Very dry, so dry in fact that trees have started to lose leaf colour because of the dryness.
This time of year, further north means closer to the sun
No, it’s not normal, until this year 28C was the all-time record of September temperature anywhere in Sweden, this year half the country had several days at or above this level.
That being said, “cold wind and rainy” is also not normal for early September. The climate in southern Sweden is basically Germany minus 2 degrees, it’s not Spitsbergen you’re travelling through. Even much further north than you are, in Umeå, a normal September day is “15 degrees and some clouds”, not “cold, windy and rainy”.
Cause I drank all the water
Check precipitation maps.
The wine culture is booming in Sweden.
you should come in the south to see. So many trees died in the forests and nearly nobody says something about it.
Post from 6 days ago about annual average precipitation: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/BbGoKt8Ou9
It’s withering because it’s rightfully part of the kingdom of Denmark, and the land knows it.
Norwegian mountains stop quite a bit of rain, western Norway reveives a lot more rain as a result.
Because we’re in a human made climate crisis….
Can’t speak for Sweden, but I’m currently in Denmark and I dare say it’s been a full month without rain. grass has dried up due to almost no rain. I think Sweden and the all of the nordics have had a similar experience.
looks like Italy 😀
It basically gets drier the further north you go. The driest place in Europe (not counting southeastern Spain) is around the border between Sweden and Finland. [See this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/3dhurh/average_annual_precipitation_in_europe_550550/). Lately we have shifted from wet summers and dry winters to dry summers and wet winters (here in Jämtland winters have bcome a lot more snowy than before).
> Is this normal? I thought Sweden would be cold, wet, windy, rainy, clouds and instead its hardcore Summer.
This is just north of Germany so obviously it’s more or less identical climate to northern Germany.
Could that be due to climate change?!
not normal, actually record warm september. and basically the warmest we have had all summer this year.
Going north generally means temperatures dropping, it does not mean it will get wetter. Cold climates can be arid and dry as well.
All the rain hits Scotland before it gets to Sweden
This looks so much like Bulgaria, right now. Crazy considering it’s Sweden and this is way up north
Never would have guessed that Sweden, of all places, was *dry*.
Because nature decided that this year, all the rain should be dumped on Denmark.
Is it the soil?
It can be dry for a month or even more. Still green where I live: clay soil. And dry as your place where my parents live: sand.
I live not very far from Sweden, but it is very hot everywhere here all summer and in early September. At the same time, waves of rain periodically pass through Estonia, Finland and northwest Russia, which bypass Sweden, I just constantly watch the precipitation radar to plan my day. Perhaps this is somehow related to geography, ocean currents and the movement of air masses?
The clouds cant go over the scandinavian mountains and just rain in norway and the baltic sea is too small to evaporate enough water
Doctors and engineers are terraforming Sweden to become more like shit hole they came from 😎
This is a really impressive collection of photos just to support your thesis that it’s dry over there. 😄
Because being further north does not equal more wetness?
I mean the poles are technically deserts, despite being covered in ice, for now.