Anyone who longs for a cold and snowy Christmas Eve should make arrangements as soon as possible to spend December 24 in the northern parts of Sweden.
- It looks to be a white and cold Christmas in Dalarna, northern Värmland, Jämtland and further north, says Charlotta Eriksson, meteorologist at SMH.
But she makes reservations because there are doubts about how wintry Christmas weather will be even further north.
- How it is along the southern Norrland coast is also a little uncertain.
For the rest of the country, there seems to be no hope of winter weather for the Christmas holidays. Although a little colder air pulls down over the southern parts of the country in the middle of the week, Christmas Eve weather seems to be the most it has been lately, that is, mild and gray.
- There will be gentle air over Götaland and Svealand, says Charlotta Eriksson.
The last time it was a white Christmas in all of Sweden was 2010, according to SMHI's statistics. Typical green Christmas events occurred, among other things, in the years 2006 and 1970, when it was barren land in Götaland, practically all of Svealand and in much of Norrland. Also in 1977, Christmas was a little extra mild in the south when Simrishamn in Skåne measured 13.7 plus degrees in the morning, which is also a Swedish heat record for December.