The Christmas Hurricane of 1902 ( da, Julestormen 1902, sv, Julorkanen 1902) was a strong

European windstorm European windstorms are powerful extratropical cyclones which form as cyclonic windstorms associated with areas of low atmospheric pressure. They can occur throughout the year, but are most frequent between October and March, with peak intensit ...

which struck

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and

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

on 25 December 1902.SMHI - ''Den stormiga julen 1902'': accessdate: 3 August 2014
/ref> In Sweden, it hit

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, parts of southern

Kronoberg County Kronoberg County (; sv, Kronobergs län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. Kronoberg is one of three counties in the province of Småland. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar, and Blekinge. Its capital is ...

and the west coast. Around 50 fishermen were killed, while very few people on land were killed. Material damages, measured in millions of Swedish crowns, were reported. The storm destroyed, among other things, open-air baths in

Varberg Varberg () is a locality and the seat of Varberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 35,782 inhabitants in 2019. Varberg and all of Halland are well known for their "typical west coast" sandy beaches. In Varberg the coast changes from wi ...

, Mölle and Malmö (one in

Ribersborgsstranden Ribersborgsstranden is a neighbourhood of Malmö, situated in the district of Innerstaden, Malmö Municipality Malmö Municipality ( sv, Malmö kommun), or City of Malmö (''Malmö stad''), is a Swedish municipality in Skåne County, the sou ...

– the

Ribersborgs open-air bath Ribersborg open-air bathhouse (''Ribersborgs kallbadhus'' in Swedish, also known as ''Ribban'' by the older and ''Kallis'' by the younger generation) is an open-air public bath on the Ribersborg beach in Malmö, Sweden approximately one kilometr ...

– and one in

Sibbarp Sibbarp is a village and a former parish in Varberg Municipality, Halland, Sweden. Sibbarp was first mentioned in 1354 as Sigbiornathorp. The name is formed of Sigbjörn (a male name) and thorp. The former Sibbard parish covered an area of . 1 Ja ...

), and the Örgryte Church tower spire fell off.

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