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About Forecast Sweden

Sweden's own weather models, taken seriously. The forecast a Swede reads starts from MEPS — MetCoOp's 2.5 km HARMONIE-AROME, run jointly by SMHI, MET Norway and FMI. This site draws it hour by hour to T+66, every field, on the frame Sweden's weather actually arrives through, beside SMHI's radar composite every five minutes, the ECMWF ten-day outlook on a Europe frame, and the WAM wave and NEMO sea models over the whole Baltic.

Sweden on its own grid. The front page's map is drawn in SWEREF 99 TM (EPSG:3006) — the transverse Mercator with 15°E up the middle that every Lantmäteriet map is made in — so the country keeps the shape it has on the wall, rather than Web Mercator's, which draws Kiruna at 1.4 times the scale of Malmö. Its relief is ETOPO 2022; its coast, lakes and län lines are OpenStreetMap's.

Navigate by place, not by zoom. The three landsdelar, the twenty-one län, 145 places from Smygehuk to Karesuando, and SMHI's sea areas from Skagerrak to Bottenviken — each is a framing with its own address, and the finest model that covers it answers. And every neighbour — Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, the Baltic states — is one click across the border on its own site.

The products

ProductGrid RunsReach Fields
MEPS 2.5 km (MetCoOp) 8 × day T+66 20, incl. visibility, CAPE, 850/700/500 hPa and the jet
Radar 2 km SMHI composite, 11 radars every 5 min now rain rate, from corrected reflectivity
ECMWF ~15 km subset, Europe 2 × day T+240 9, the synoptic set aloft and at the surface
Baltic Waves (WAM) ~3 km, whole Baltic 4 × day T+66 wave height, direction, swell
Baltic Sea (NEMO) ~2 km, whole Baltic daily T+120 sea temperature, salinity, currents

How it is rendered

Absolute colour scales. Every ramp is pinned to fixed values — temperature from −40 to +35 °C, wind in metres per second, wave height on a scale that tops out at the Baltic's own measured maximum. A loop therefore shows the weather changing, never the palette re-fitting itself, and the same colour means the same number on every model.

A value under every pixel. Point anywhere and the readout reports the number the colour encodes, and the town labels print the model's own values, sampled on the native grid before any resampling. MSLP carries real isobars, traced from the full-precision field rather than from the picture.

Straight from the source. The models arrive as GRIB2 from FMI's open-data download service; the radar as SMHI's own ODIM HDF5 composite, its corrected reflectivity turned to rain rate with Marshall–Palmer. Each is decoded, warped and colour-mapped once and served as static imagery. No screenshots of anyone else's maps, no account, no tracking.

Credit, and what this is not

Radar data are © the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), published as open data under CC BY 4.0. MEPS, ECMWF, WAM and NEMO fields are from the Finnish Meteorological Institute's open data, also CC BY 4.0; MEPS is run by SMHI, MET Norway and FMI as MetCoOp, and the ECMWF fields are ECMWF data republished by FMI. The basemap, and the coastline, borders, län, kommuner and lakes drawn over the weather, are © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Protomaps; the hero's relief is NOAA's ETOPO 2022; rivers, built-up areas and the neighbours' place points are from Natural Earth. This site is not affiliated with SMHI, FMI or any of them, and it is not a source of weather warnings — those are issued at smhi.se, and nothing here supersedes them.