Coldest may in decades in several places

"We don't have any historical record, but you can say that it is the lowest majtemperaturen in a very long time," says SMHI's meteorologist Jon Jörpeland.

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temperatures at five different stations in the country during Saturday. In addition to those mentioned in the Twitterinlägget above is the local Hanö by 1.6 degrees in the morning (lowest majtemperaturen since 1985), group Junsele with minus 7.5 degrees (in 1981) and the southwest Jim by 2.1 degrees (1987).

– It is an exceptionally cold for the season, in addition, that it is not in a certain part of Sweden, but in almost the whole country. It depends on the classic struggle between cold and warm air, as we always have in the spring and autumn, but now in april there was a significantly high pressure which has long stood against the cold northern air mass, so now we aprilvädret in may instead, " says Jon Jörpeland.

Next week, we will have similar weather continued to be unstable, and in recent years majvärme visible yet not in the forecast. In southern Sweden there will be, at most, 10 degrees in the day. In the north it will be 5 at its warmest and with the low, come rain or even wet snow north.