We changed to summer time last night. And when I rose at 0600 today – Easter Sunday – (5 am according to my body clock) it was all of -12°C outside!
SMHI defines spring in Sweden as the first day – after 15th February – of 7 continuous days with temperatures between 0 and 10 °C. The “normal” onset of Spring is as below:
- Malmö: 22nd February
- Stockholm: 16th March
- Östersund: 11th April
- Kiruna: 1st May
Admittedly I am at a latitude of 58.7057° N.
At 58.7 °N spring should have come around 12th March and we are going to be around 3 weeks late (at least).
There is much clearing and spring cleaning to be done but I am not the most enthusiastic gardener in the world. The sun is warm and we should get up to an air temperature of +5°C today. But I have no intention of digging through the remaining frozen snow or risk frostbite while clipping the bushes. I shall have another cup of coffee and wait for time and natural variation to do their work.
I could do with a bit of real global warming – and not that which comes from a mathematical model.
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