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Despite the media alarm - July 2022 was not warmer than usual
Published 9 August 2022 at 08.02
DOMESTIC. Warm and cooler periods largely canceled each other out during July in Sweden. For the country as a whole, the July temperature ended up close to a long-term average for the period 1860-1900, according to SHMI.

July 2022 will probably be mainly remembered for the intense heat in the days around July 21 - which was widely reported in the media - and the severe summer storms that followed when the heat broke.

But the month of July also contained periods of cool and unsettled weather. Mainly in the western parts of Norrland, the month was a little colder than normal for the period 1991–2020, according to SMHI.

Frost occurred on a couple of occasions in western Norrland. As low as -1.7° in Börtnan in Jämtland on July 29.

The most attention-grabbing, however, were the high temperatures measured in southern Sweden on July 21. Målilla had 37.2°, which is the highest measured temperature in Sweden since June 1947. A number of stations recorded new heat records for the month of July or for the whole year regardless of the month