Weather. Pooh, or cheer, what heat!
High pressure back has been the thermometers show about 30 degrees a number of places in the country. Thus increasing the risk of fires in the forests and fire bans have been introduced in several places.
The State Provincial Offices in Stockholm and Uppsala and Region Gotland introduced a ban on fires from 16 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. The heat wave and dry soils runs the risk of a small fire can quickly become difficult to control, writes Stockholm’s rescue in a press release. Fire ban also applies in Kronoberg County.
Risk of forest fire is large or locally very high, mainly in the eastern southern and central Sweden and parts of southern and central Norrland. It urges the public to be very careful when grilling or heating, if the fire ban not already in place.
The heat wave has however encompassed just the country. The highest temperature was recorded on Saturday afternoon in Målilla: 30.3, degrees. But this summer the highest temperature is from midsummer day, when the right Malilla was 31.8 degrees.
– But it is on the verge of becoming a new season record. Tomorrow will be probably around 30 degrees, said Lisa Frost, meteorologist at SMHI.
A normal high summer temperatures usually around 20 degrees in southern and central Sweden, and between 15 and 20 North Sweden. Now it becomes instead temperatures much above normal until Monday.
– And when it’s so hot, the risk of heat lightning. But it can be cool with a flurry in the afternoon, said Lisa Frost.
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