The English language Swedish online news site The Local.se reports on how the weather in Sweden has been so far during the month of June: wet & cold.

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© Wikipedia, taken by Mark A. Wilson, Department of Geology, The College of WoosterChilly June hits Sweden.
According to the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), temperatures have been well below average in June, at just 13.3 degrees Celsius. Normal is 15.2°C.

On June 2, the temperature in Stockholm rose only to 6°C, the coldest high in 84 years, read more here. Earlier in the month one town recorded a temperature of 6°C below zero - the coldest June temperature in Sweden in 20 years. Snow even blanketed parts of northern Sweden.

Normally in the month of June, the mercury rises to 25°C or more on just days 5 days on average. This June the mercury never reached that mark. In fact it didn't even reach the 22°C mark. The high temperature for June in Stockholm was only 21.6°C. This is only the second time the temperature has failed to reach 25°C in June in 92 years.

What's behind the unusual cool weather? An SMHI spokesman explains it to us:
Sweden's climate has become both warmer and rainier because of global warming, and rainfall and storms have increased in recent years."I'm glad he cleared that up.
June has also been a very wet month. According to the SMHI, Stockholm recorded a record rainfall so far for the month: 145.8 millimetres, the most since records began in 1786.