Frequency of Rare Weather Events during Periods of Extreme Climate

1 January 1990

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography

Vol. 72 (2) , 151
https://doi.org/10.2307/521110

Abstract

For Karesuando in northernmost Sweden the extraordinary warm period 1931–1940 and the much colder one 1979–1988 are compared with respect to length of growing season and occurrence of frost during the summer months. Although the difference between the selected periods is quite striking, as far as average summer and winter temperatures are concerned, it turns out that the length of the growing season as well as the frost conditions have been rather more favourable during the later, colder, decade than during the earlier. There is also evidence that the occurrence of extreme areal precipitation over 24 hours shows little or no correlation with the average long term temperature conditions.

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