1/30/2024 0 Comments Weather indicator tools![]() Some seasons in the mid-70s and around 1990 were also relatively short. In Svealand the shortest snow season studied during the period is 20019/20. The length of the snow seasons has decreased since the 1980s. Since the winter 1990/2000, there is only one snow season longer than the period of reference 1961-1990. The longest season was during the winter of 1980/81. In southern Norrland we can see that the snow seasons 2013/14, 2014//16 have been the shortest during the period. Since the turn of the millennium, there are only two winters that have had a longer snow season than the period of reference 1961-1990. The snow season 2019/20 was the longest for that area in nearly 25 years. In northern Norrland, the snow season 1968/69 was the longest, and the season 1953/54 was the shortest. Days with snow coverįor Sweden as a whole, a decreasing trend of days with snow coverage is noticeable. In the charts we see that from about 1990 the maximum snow depth is at a lower level than before. During the winter of 2009/10, the average value of the greatest snow depth in that part of the country is greatest, 59 centimeters as an average for the 15 stations. In Götaland, some years stand out a little extra either with high snow depths or with low ones. In contrast to Norrland, the values in Svealand are lower in recent decades. ![]() Other years with little snow is for example around 1930, in the beginning of the 70s, around 19/12. The winter with the least snow was 2019/20, when the depth was only 16 cm. The depth averaged 82centimeters at most. In Svealand it was the winter of 1965/66 which had the greatest snow depth. In southern Norrland the winter of 1956/55 is the snowiest, followed by 1987//18. ![]() Winters with lesser amounts of snow occurred around 1930 and during the winter 1953/54. In northern Norrland, the winter of 1905/06 was the snowiest, but there have also been snowy winters in later years. Other winters with a lot of snow were 1976/77, 2009//11. The snowiest winter in Sweden as a whole was 1965/66, when the average value of the winter's greatest snow depth, measured from the 43 stations, was 86 centimeters. Thus far, there is no clear trend of decreasing snow depth in the diagrams, something that might be expected. Comment on the results Greatest snow depth
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