The forecast for Christmas Eve points to bright sun and crisp minus degrees across almost all of Sweden, but no snow is expected in the southern parts. The snow line runs high up in the country, potentially making it the greenest Christmas since 2020. Meteorologist Lasse Rydkvist predicts frost that could add a white touch to the bare ground.
According to meteorologist Lasse Rydkvist at Klart, the weather on Christmas Eve will be sunny and cold across large parts of the country. Temperatures will drop to minus degrees as a high-pressure system from the north takes over after the moist low-pressure from the Atlantic. The snow line stretches diagonally from northern Dalafjällen in the west to north of Umeå in the east, and south of it, snow is entirely absent.
"It might lay a bit of frost on the bare ground, which brightens things up a little", says Rydkvist. He warns that it could be the greenest Christmas since 2020, with thin snow even where it exists. December has so far been cloudy in Stockholm, with only 28 minutes of sun, but the sun will appear already on Sunday, December 21, and continue into the Christmas week.
"Already tomorrow there will be quite a bit of sun around the country. So it's still a brightening in that sense that there's more room for December sun", explains Rydkvist. The dry and cold air on Christmas Eve promises clear weather in large parts of Sweden.
Hope for snow persists in the days after Christmas, however. A low-pressure system could move in on December 27 and bring snow showers. "It could carry some snow with it. The question is how far south it reaches. Currently, it could give a few individual centimeters in Svealand and northern Götaland", states Rydkvist. The minus degrees create optimal conditions for the snow to stay.
