Stockholm, Sweden
8 Jan 2022
We have had something like "On and Off" weather during the past 2 weeks. A couple days of mild weather, in which all snow melted, mixed with brief very cold periods. The last cold period was yesterday morning, in which the temperatures went down to
-9° to -16°C (15.8°F to 3.2°F) in the larger Stockholm area, followed by a beautiful, sunny morning, but then a weather front knocked at our door - with whole lot of milder air, as well snow.
While I am writing, in the early hours of 8 Jan 2022, the temperatures are hovering around
+0.5°C (32.9°F) and more snow has come down (very pretty because every little tree branch is covered !) - yet, it will all go mush (and dull) quickly, as the temperatures will climb further.
We then expect that a very mild period is looming ahead of us: with temperatures possibly up to
+8°C (46.4°F) in the Stockholm area. The vast realms of ice cold air over Canada, inducing many storms over the warm Atlantic, racing eastwards - pulling in over Europe and Scandinavia, like cars on a highway - creating mild weather. At the same time, the Russian coldpole - which usually is the counter balancing equivalent to the Canadian one in winter and normally keeping the mild Atlantic air at bay, but for the moment largely is missing. That explains why mild air can penetrate the nordic space so freely.
But in all - nothing unusual is going on up here.