Around this time of the year, i often tend to get stuck in limbo.

As if a part of me tries to prepare myself (prematurely) for colder times. And a somewhat sad feeling of "lost times", as summer is definitely over. (Which isn't always true in early September). It in the beginning pf September last year 2024, when the temperature rose to 28°C (the official number was 27.8°C on 5 Sep 2024, and then 26.0°C on 6th, and a notch higher with 26.5°C on 7th Sep 2024.

It was an amazing feeling ! Totally high season summer, you know. My mind already had "ended" summer season. Still, it did get a lot cooler after those dates, and high seasons summer ended practically after 7 Sep 2024. But it was still normal summer (15-21°) in the weeks all the way until the end of September.

aoi kaze

Nevertheless - i do get this limbo feeling prematurely in mid or late August - as if summer has passed; similar to the saying in Japanese (aoi kaze / Blue Wind); a way to describe a particular state of mind - between a certain sadness and nostalgia.

There are two stages i feel; the end of the hot period (high seasons summer), and then the end of normal summer (often when temperatures go below 20°). Another threshold is when minimum temperatures start to fall below 10°C, it does really feel more like autumn up here.

What was. What is. What might become

April to September 2025 temperatures (Min / Max), from Stockholm City, plus the Min temperatures from Stockholm-Tullinge, which is 19 km outside of the city center. The blue section means that temperatures where cooler than normal.