Horn is a

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situated in

Kinda Municipality Kinda Municipality (''Kinda kommun'') is a municipality in Östergötland County, southeast Sweden. The municipal seat is located in the town Kisa, with some 4,000 inhabitants. The present municipality was created in 1974 through the amalgamatio ...

Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the ...

, Sweden with 495 inhabitants in 2010.

Climate

Horn has a hybrid climate between

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and

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tendencies. It is influenced by its interior position in a spot prone to

air frost Freezing, available onlinlibrary.wmo.int/ref> or frost occurs when the air temperature falls below the freezing point of water (0 °C, 32 °F, 273 K). This is usually measured at the height of 1.2 metres above the ground surface ...

s and high

diurnal temperature variation In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high air temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day. Temperature lag Temperature lag is an important factor in diurnal temperature variation: peak da ...

. As a result, frosts are possible in all months of the year, even though monthly average highs are above freezing year-round. Horn has not had its station operating longer than 1995, although has since been established as the coldest climate with a weather station in the wider Southern Sweden region of

Götaland Götaland (; also '' Geatland'', '' Gothia'', ''Gothland'', ''Gothenland'' or ''Gautland'') is one of three lands of Sweden and comprises ten provinces. Geographically it is located in the south of Sweden, bounded to the north by Svealand, wit ...

References

Kinda Municipality Populated places in Östergötland County Populated places in Kinda Municipality {{Östergötland-geo-stub