What the weather will do, for southern Sweden
An independent project that turns open forecast and observation data into clear weather information for Skåne, focused on what it means on the ground. Free to use. Runs entirely in your browser.
Cloud study painted in Sweden, 1891. Østlig himmelegn. Tryk: 1025,1 hPa. Temperatur: 9 °C. Source: DMI (Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut).
Skåne Weather takes open data from SMHI, the point forecast, the mesoscale analysis, and the station network, and turns it into pages that answer practical questions. Has it rained here recently, and how much? Is today a good day to be outside? What is the coming week likely to bring?
A conventional forecast tells you that 5 mm of rain is likely. These tools try to tell you what that means on the ground: whether the roads were wet this morning, whether the afternoon is worth planning around, where in the region the rain actually fell.
Everything is fetched live from SMHI's open API when you load the page. Nothing is stored, nothing is tracked, and the source and timestamp of every number are shown on the page. The tools are free to use.
Self contained pages, free to use. They refresh themselves, so you can open one and leave it running.
Is today looking good? A Good / Mixed / Poor call for the next few hours, weighing rain, wind and gusts, thunderstorm risk, temperature, and visibility, with the reasoning shown. Below it: where and how much it has rained across Skåne in the last 24 hours, an hourly timeline for a town of your choice, and a ten day outlook.
Open the outlook → Live readingsEvery SMHI station reporting in Skåne this hour, with temperature, wind, cloud, visibility, pressure, and precipitation, as a card grid or an interactive map coloured by temperature, plus an optional layer of road weather stations. A regional summary strip sits on top.
Open current conditions → AlertsThe warnings SMHI has active for Skåne and the nearby coast, colour coded by level, with the expected impact and the advice in plain language, a map of the affected area, and a countdown to when each one ends. A short strip also appears on the other pages when something is active.
See active warnings → ExplainerA weather forecast is not equally reliable everywhere. This ranks Skåne's towns by how settled their weather tends to be, from the easier calls to the ones closer to a coin toss, with a short reason for each and a map. A ranking within Skåne, not a promise for any one day.
See the ranking → RenewablesGiven the weather right now, how much could Skåne's wind and solar fleet produce, and how does that compare to what's actually being generated across southern Sweden? A live map of the wind clusters and solar parks, and a gap between potential and actual you can watch shift through the day.
See the fleet → HikingA forecast for the stage you're actually walking, not the nearest town: temperature, chance of rain, and how confident the models are, checked against the closest weather station. Starting with Skåneleden 1, more stages to follow.
Check a stage → Next few decadesHow Skåne's climate risk shifts over the next few decades. A scorecard across heat, cold and winter, drought, heavy rain, the growing season, wind, and the coast: today's value, the estimate for the 2040s, the uncertainty band, and a confidence label. Based on global climate projections, checked against what local records actually show.
See the outlook → Weather map500 hPa height and sea level pressure, the classic weather map. Wider European context plus a close regional view, to see what is approaching before it reaches Skåne.
See the chart → Outlook mapsHow the coming week, month and season compare with normal, drawn as maps from open forecast data, with a plain word on what it means for Skåne and how sure it is. Every source named.
Read the latest →By town: Malmö · Lund · Helsingborg · Kristianstad · Ystad
These pages are built for Skåne, but the method is general. Take the hazard forecast, combine it with what actually matters to you, your assets, routes, sites, and thresholds, and produce a statement about impact instead of millimetres and metres per second. If that would be useful for an organisation you work with, get in touch.
Forecasts of what a weather event will do at a given location or asset: disruption to transport and logistics, loss of access, shifts in demand, and safety risk, each with a lead time and a confidence level.
Hazard forecasts combined with your exposure and vulnerability data to build impact functions and thresholds tailored to your network, so future events can be assessed automatically.
Warning tiers, triggers, and playbooks based on impact rather than raw thresholds, plus clear plots and dashboards that show which assets are affected, how badly, and when to act.
Workflows built with open source tools and open data. Methods and code are documented so your team can rerun, adapt, and extend the work without depending on one vendor.
Start from the decision that needs to be made and work back to the forecast, not the other way around.
Data source and timestamp are shown on the page. Assumptions and limits are explained in plain language, not buried.
Open data and open source tools throughout. No tracking, no accounts, nothing stored about you.
Realistic statements about what a forecast can and cannot tell you, with uncertainty explained in plain terms.
For a correction or a question about one of the Skåne pages, or if weather affects decisions you make, for a business, a public body, a community group, or a research project, send a short description of what you need and any timing constraints.
This page is deliberately brief. More detail, methods, and references on request.
Skåne Weather is a spare time project, built and paid for privately by one person with a background in atmospheric science and weather data, now working mostly on weather risk in other sectors. It is not affiliated with SMHI, DMI, or any employer. The point of keeping a name off the pages is that they should be judged on whether the numbers are right and the explanations are clear. Questions, corrections, and collaboration are all welcome at the address above.