2014 Swedish heatwave

The July heat wave started after a week, when Härsnäs in Östergötland County recorded after hot continental air came into the south of the country. Even gloomy mountain areas such as Östersund and Storlien had warm months. In August the heat wave in the far north got somewhat tempered, but for the first week the heatwave got new proportions in the southern and central parts of Sweden. After a few relatively calm days around a high-pressure system originating in the Baltic states came into the eastern parts of the country on 3 August, ensuring new nationwide high temperatures for the heatwave, although not matching the historic all-time highs. Härsnäs once again tied for warmest in the country with , matching the values from Renbergsvattnet. 4 August was the hottest day of the year and for a few years before when far inland town Falun recorded , The highest overnight low was reached on 3 August on the uninhabited isolated island of Gotska Sandön with a mere 0.1 °C below the nationwide all-time record for warmest low. ==Milestones==

Several heat records were broken and the summer was unusually warm by such northerly marine standards. Apart from in neighbouring countries the heatwave was very much localised, and average temperatures were somewhat neutered by cooler spells interrupting the various intense bursts of heat, as well as the cool nights in Sweden that bring average temperatures down. In a Swedish context this was still a remarkable event, in particular the extremely warm temperatures far north. Small village Kvikkjokk north of the Arctic Circle had a July average high of and Luleå had a daily mean of in a coastal location north of the 65th parallel. Sweden's second city Gothenburg tied for the warmest July month on record with a high of , a low of and a resulting mean of . Gothenburg's mean was the warmest in the country, but the warmest high mean was in Falun. Among other unusual consequences of the heat wave was that Kiruna had a yearly mean of just above the freezing point, and Luleå's mean topping for the first time. ==Regions==

Skåne Skanör med Falsterbo set a new Swedish record for warmest yearly mean with . Its marine features rendered less severe daytime heat during the heat wave, but rather very warm nights. Daily July means went above , but the temperature record and individual monthly record both stood, with Falsterbo only once recording in its recorded history (as of 2016). In spite of the hypermarine features of the climate Falsterbo recorded 20 days above during the summer. }}}} Lund in Skåne had its warmest year on record, but its extremely warm July still did not match its 2006 record for the warmest month. Lund recorded 33 days with temperatures above . Its July mean of was also the warmest in the country, due to the very warm nights by Swedish standards, averaging around . Unlike areas further north, Lund did not experience a summer drought. Eastern Götaland Norrköping and the surrounding coastline through Västervik to the south Nyköping to the east had a very warm summer in spite of the near-coastal location. Norrköping had a yearly mean of , a new all-time record. Although the year was record warm, July did not beat the 1994 records, but it was still far warmer than a normal year. In total, 32 days of the year reached in Norrköping. ==References==