Long days and short nights are not normally associated with snow.Nevertheless, a part of Scandinavia may experience both thanks to a strongstorm at mid to late week.
The storm will spin up on Wednesday and Thursday over the northern BalticSea near southern Finland and eastern Sweden. The storm will draw arctic airsouthward over Sweden and Norway. It should be cold enough to turn some of thestorm's numbingly cold rain into snow over higher ground of central and westernSweden into eastern Norway. Accumulation, even heavy local snowfall, will bepossible between late on Wednesday and early on Friday.
Elsewhere, the primary effect of the northern storm will be to spread coolair over northern Europe from Great Britain through Germany and Poland intonorthwestern Russia.
Story by AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Jim Andrews
