Northern Sweden had a rude awakening this week as temperatures plummeted and snow fell in a dramatic change of weather.
This year Sweden experienced its warmest May on record, but the glorious weather came to an abrupt end on Monday night.
In the south that meant temperatures in the mere teens; in the north it meant sudden snowfall, as captured by an employee of the Coop supermarket in Katterjåkk near the northern Swedish border.
“It’s normal to get snow here in June – sometimes we get snow here on Midsummer,” Lisa Isaksson told The Local. “What happened this time is it came so suddenly. I went to bed at about 11pm and woke up around 6am to a winter landscape.”
The -6.8C temperature registered over the night at a weather station three hours south in Latnivaara is the coldest June temperature in Sweden since 1991.
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