Le foto sono di Malmö e Trelleborg e del tragitto in treno tra di loro. Era così secco lì, non sono mai stato in un posto così secco, pazzesco! E c’erano 28°C e pieno sole, il 7 settembre.
È normale? Pensavo che la Svezia sarebbe stata fredda, umida, ventosa, piovosa, nuvolosa e invece è un’estate da urlo.
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di 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.
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.
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.
Tedious post equating north with “wet”, which is just stupid.
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
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 😀
Its freeze dried haha
It probably has something to do with the weather.
All I remember is that the lakes are very cold even during summertime. “Cold water shrinks the shrimp, Cindy!”. Very enjoyable country, with cold lakes.
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).