Midsummer and many people's vacations are only a month away.

In advance, the summer of 2022 looks to be a fairly typical Swedish summer - but there is still much to suggest that we will be able to sum it up as a hot summer.

The so-called Azores high pressure is a strong contributing factor, Nitzan Cohen explains. 

- It usually takes place across the Atlantic around the archipelago of the Azores, but during the type of summer I expect us to have this year, this high pressure usually extends across northern Europe in shorter rounds, he says.

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SVT's meteorologist Nitzan Cohen gives a summer overview Photo: SVT