STOCKHOLM, Oct 29, 2022 (BSS/AFP) - Swedish meteorologists said Saturday 
they had recorded the country's highest temperature ever measured this late 
into the autumn.

     The record temperature of 19.5 degrees Celsius (67.1 degrees Fahrenheit) 
was recorded in the city of Kristianstad in the south of the country on 
Friday.

     "This is the highest temperature ever recorded in Sweden this late in 
the year," Erik Hojgard-Olsen, meteorologist at the Swedish Meteorological 
and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) told AFP.

     While not the highest temperature recorded for the month of October -- 
that was 24.5C on October 9, 1995 -- it has never been warmer than 19C this 
late in the year, and that temperature was last recorded in 1963, Hojgard-
Olsen explained.

     He said the October weather overall had been a few degrees warmer than 
normal in Sweden.

     Though a direct link to climate change could not be drawn from a single 
day record, the meteorologist said that overall "we are continuing to observe 
high temperatures and that is in line with a warmer climate."