“Hot air has avoided Sweden with uncanny precision,” says the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) in its summary of the summer of 2012. “It was the worst in twelve years (if you like sun and heat, that is).”
It has been a long time since the Swedish people expressed such disappointment at summer weather, writes SMHI on its website. This year, June, July and August have brought a lot of rain, a little heat and few sunny days.
In its summary of summer 2012, SMHI describes it as “a disappointment for most vacationers.”
“There was no single extended period of warmth, sunshine and clear blue skies throughout the summer. It has been twelve years since that last happened.
“There was no shortage of hot air over the Northern Hemisphere as a whole, but it avoided Sweden with uncanny precision.”
The average temperature in the country was slightly lower than normal, but it varied. In North Norrland, summer was the coldest since 1998, while in southern Götaland, which fared the best, we need go back only to 2004 to find a cooler summer.
It has been wetter than usual in Stockholm and Linköping, where you have to go back to 1960 to find similar amounts of precipitation. But in Sweden as a whole, it has not rained more than usual.
Some facts about the summer of 2012:
• Maximum temperature: 32.1 C degrees, in Lund on 20 August.
• Lowest temperature: -6.3 percent, in Börtnan June 1.
• Highest daily precipitation: 163 mm, Hinshult, Småland, July 7.
• Thunder / Lightning richest days: 12,224 lightning discharges on 6 June.
• Number of tropical nights (with 24 hr temperature not less than 20 degrees): 0.
• Most summer days (25 C degrees or more): 16 , Lund.
• Minimum number of summer days: 0, Norrland.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/sommaren-nar-varmluften-undvek-sverige
Thanks to Bjorn Sefeldt for this link
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Stockholm & Gothenburg only had 5 days of summer temps.
next summer you will probably have 2 days of summer temps =))
Still, certain meteorologist bloggers here in Sweden are calling this a “normal summer”. This summer with reindeer calves freezing to death was NOT a normal summer and we are entering a new Ice Age, Amen!
Well when I was a kid, they were all the time saying: We will soon have an iceage again. This was the science at the time, and no one opposed. I was wondering how they could be so stupid and try to foretell the weather. Now it shows they were not right and also other things that was the “facts” have been re-valuated.
It seems that science people are not so smart as they try to pretend. Not much of what was true fifty years ago, has withstand the time.
Actually it should be investigated all these “truths” that science people so willingly spread around. I mean it should be investigated why they are doing this? It is really disturbing. They don’t know. And they are blocking the evolution.
To say we are haeding into another Ice Age i feel at this point in time is a bit soon to tell. I do however believe we are heading into a cooler period of time, for how long, I guess we’ll have to keep watching the sun for spots of life. I do believe we all need to be back yard gardners again, no use waiting until you can not afford what is in the shops because of lower than normal supplies from farmers.
Just 1 visit from Al Gore and Obama should bring enough hot air to sustain the Swedes thru Christmas.
Hot air has avoided Sweden with uncanny precision…
but slammed into Italy!
Be warned– as Sol enters on a 70-year Grand Minimum similar to that of 1645 – 1715, the mid-2060s will likely experience horrific seasonal shifts analogous to the mid-1690s when Europe’s entire northern tier from Scotland to regions east of Finland suffered catastrophic episodes of disease, starvation, wholesale depopulation by near two-thirds.
Due to continental landmasses’ plate tectonic dispositions, periodic Pleistocene glaciations averaging ~ 102,000 years have occurred regular-as-clockwork from c. 2.6-million years-before-present (YBP), separated by interstadial remissions of median 12,250 years. Absent the 1,500-year Younger Dryas “cold shock” –a result of cometary/meteorite bombardment rather than climatological factors– our current Holocene Interglacial Epoch would likely have ended c. AD 450, coincident with the end of the 500-year Roman Warm which persisted through Imperial times.
As various long-term cooling factors, none of them “climate-driven” by benign trace gasses such as CO2, cyclically reinforce rather than cancel out, odds are that by AD 2100 humanity will experience the onset of another 102-kiloyear Pleistocene Ice Time. Having purposefully and willfully neglected all rational preparations for catastrophe, well over 90% of Earth’s human population faces annihilation as continental ice sheets engulf formerly temperate regions in glacial streams some 2 – 3 miles deep.
Once regressed to savage Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, having exhausted Earth’s accessible energy and mineral resources, remnant survivors will never again evolve a high-tech planetary civilization. Though certain parties –Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren, Keith Farnish, Kentti Linkola– celebrate this prospect, they will be among the first to suffer its effects.
I enjoyed your post.
Even found this PDF
http://geochemistry.usask.ca/bill/Courses/Pleistocene%20glaciations.pdf
Where do I invest in property for my great grand children to live in the future?
Here are some maps that show the extent of glaciation during the last ice age. http://iceagenow.info/2011/05/ice-age-maps/
I’m thinking that it would be best to look for land south of these lines.
Same here in Norway… We had it even worse than Sweden.
Here in middle of Norway we did not get a single day with 25c or higher, which means we did not have summer at all. The summer has basically been like a eternal fall.
And yesterday we already had first snowfall in a town just south of here: http://www.adressa.no/incoming/article4787777.ece/BINARY/w680/Sn%C3%B8.jpg
And i blame the southward shift of jet stream that is a result of the current grand solar minimum.