American Reacts to Living With the Dark Winters in Sweden 🇸🇪
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- I've been intrigued by this topic ever since learning about it last Christmas in one of my videos about a European Christmas. In that video, Norway was the focus, but I imagine that winters are similar in Sweden. Towards the end I look up latitudes on a map to see which countries are possibly affected by the same phenomenon. If you enjoyed this video, please like and subscribe!
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Definitely in your top 20 videos SoGal, I'd be more than interested to see you comment on more of her videos or that type of video ... you pick up on details that pass me by & for me it makes the original video more interesting ... thanks.
In Scotland in the summer it doesn't get dark till midnight and becomes daylight at 4am ... the sun starts rising at 3am (i live in Southern Scotland) and in the winter its dark around 3.30pm and daylight around 9 am .... far north it's not dark till 1am and becomes day again at around 3 am and in the winter it's dark at 2.30 pm and daylight at 10am foreign students freak out in the summer that it's daylight to midnight and the day returns at 4AM and Scotland's Shetlands Islands are above 60 North
I live in the southernmost part of Sweden, which is at roughly the same latitude as southern Scotland. We currently have about 7 hours of sunlight per day. The winter solstice was just a few days ago, so now the days are slowly getting longer.
Sweden is a very oblong country. If you flipped it over around its southernmost end, the northernmost end would end up in southern Italy. So the difference in climate from north to south is very big.
@@Griexxt the strange thing about Scotland is when you look at our position on the globe we don't get much in the way of Snow and that includes the Shetlands Islands which is above 60 North that is down to the Atlantic gulf stream ... Scotland has relatively mild winters compared to countries over 1500 miles south of us most years we only get a few days of snow and freezing weather, we do have a wet climate but that comes with a big bonus it makes Scotland ideal for growing mushrooms in the wild and wild fruits like strawberries, raspberries, brambles etc .... Scotland is great for foraging you would never starve living off the land and in the North East Scotland we also get the Northern Lights there is even a famous song called the old northern lights of Aberdeen
@@Griexxt another thing how would you feel about Scotland joining the Nordic council when we leave the UK in the next 18 months ... it's not a if it will happen, Covid has only delayed our exit ... i don't know if you know Scotland has already been sounded out for membership by Iceland, Finland and Denmark who supports our membership as we had a large Viking kingdom for over 3 centuries along our West coast and 5 to 6 centuries in the Orkneys and Shetlands in Scotland
Thank you so much for reacting to my video and for your kind words about my work!
Thank you! It was a great look at Sweden and life there.
Jonna is the best for replying to everyone that reacts to this.
Everyone loves your videos 😍 thank you for sharing them and especially your magical inspiring vibes! 👍❤️
14:52 Here in Nordic countries we have so called "everyman's right". They vary a little from country to country but basically the berries and mushrooms in the woods belong to everyone even if they are located on private land. You can just go to woods and pick as much berries as you like. It's very common in here to collect a lot of berries to freezer for winter, so we get enough vitamins during winter.
The gulf stream is what makes Northern Europe habitable. 25 million people live in The Nordics, compared to only 600k in Alaska where they don’t have the joys of Mexican warmth coming thru in the Atlantic.
It also depends on which way the gulf stream takes when it passes England.
also alaska lacks the kind of infrastructure and terrain the nordics have. In finland I can drive all over the country.
I checked the weather in a few Swedish cities and towns and compared it to a few in Alaska. Although I checked for the weather right now so for me (In Sweden) it's 2:40PM and it's roughy 4:40AM in Alaska as of writing this.
I will use the celsius scale where 0° is the freezing point and 100° is the boiling point of water.
Anchorage: -21°C
White Mountain: -20°C
Kodiak: +1°C
Akutan: +3°C
Prudhoe Bay -33°C
Sundsvall: -4°C
Örnsköldsvik: -7°C
Östersund: -8°C
Skellefteå: -22°C
Kiruna: -20°C
Umeå: -13°C
Kuttainen: -20°C
Gävle: -1°C
Sweden and Alaska are located roughly on the same latitude and we get almost the same winter. However, our summers are not quite so mild as of late. It's usually not as hot during the night but in daytime some days can be like living in Texas.
“Looks like she has the entire land for herself”, well she does. In Sweden we have the “Allemanrätt” it mean that you have the right to use the land almost as you like even though owned by others. You can hike, pick berries, stay over night in the wild without the land owner throwing you out. It has some obligations though not shopping down trees etc
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@@northernswedenstories1028 😅😅😅
Well allemanratt is the opposite of having the entire land for yourself
Jonna is also a musician, painter and silver smith. Also nominated to a Streamy Award in the category Cinematography this year.
She won, and it's so deserved!
Sweden is actually larger than Germany measured in land area, but only has an 1/8th of the population, which explains these vast areas of unspoiled nature in northern Sweden.
Bottom of Sweden to the top of Sweden is the same length as bottom of Sweden to Rome, Italy.
I would like to add that the nature in northern Sweden is far from unspoiled. The forestry is rather aggressive and pristine forests only occur along the border of the mountains.
@@staffan- Yearh, even near where she lives there is forestry. But it is difficult to see in the landscape when it is done slowly and not in the massive areas of just deforestation.
finland is similar, especially considering most of the population lives in the lower third of the country.
It also explains all the Germans in the summer time :)
I highly recommend looking at a map that shows the different latitudes of European cities compared to North America. Almost the entirety of Europe lies NORTH of the 48 contiguous states.
Rome in Italy is further north than New York City. Madrid in Spain is the 5th southern most capital city in all of Europe, and it is on the SAME latitude, parallel 40 as New York City.
Southern California where Los Angeleas and San Diego is, most of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, all of Lousiana, most of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and all of Texas shares lattitudes with North Africa.
If you plotted the regions on top of eachother, Los Angeles would be in Moroco, Dallas and Houston Texas would be in Libya, Jacksonville Florida would be near the pyramids in Egypt. Paris France would be in just north of Montana in Canada. The Alpes mountain range would be in Northen North Dakota, and the Great Lakes of North America would be in Northern Romania.
For all intents and purposes it is the United States that is weird by being so southern, as the 40th Parallel where New York City lies is almost shared with Beijing China as well. The 25th Parallel where Miami lies, is shared by Saudi Arabia, the Sahara desert and Taipei in Taiwan and more than 75% of China's population and Afghanistan and Iraq is completely north of that Parallel.
i didnt realize thanks.
Yeah, and Stockholm, which is in _the south_ of Sweden, is further north than Juneau, Alaska.
This is correct. And the reason we still can have hot weather in Europe is mostly due to the gulf stream bringing in heat.
Nowhere is weird, Mother Earth is perfect and it is only US who apply these labels of "strange" by forcing our fixed and stubborn perspective on a beautiful Earth that works in her own specials ways....
Sweden is very much part of Scandinavia!!!
Happy Christmas,So Gal & everyone watching! ❤
Love that you are curious about my country... Remember that its a big difference if you live in the far north of Sweden or in the far south. But the similarity are that in the whole Country, we have 4 very distinctive seasons. Its for an example a very big difference between autumn and summer. Every season is very special. In the warmest we may have 30 plus degrees and in the coldest we may 35 minus... Also the nature changes very much between the seasons... This woman lives in the North. So remember it's a big difference between winter in the south or the North in Sweden.
And Sweden offers a big difference between wildlife, ordinary country life, and city life. And we Swedes are spoiled about that our country offers all this. And you can choose how you want to live ure life. Thank you for ure great YT chanel. Love from Stockholm Sweden /Jonny
I live further south in Sweden where the sun does go down but i love the summer nights where the sun still lights the sky from beyond the horizon leaving it a dark blue all night instead of black
Great video, Sarah! Jonna is an amazing filmmaker. What she said in this video the rest of us from the northern parts of Norway, Sweden and Finland can confirm. I am from Tromsø, the capital of Northern Norway and the snow capital of Norway. Here the sun in below the horizen for two months. The polar night is longer the further north you go. The same goes for the midnight sun.
And she’s a very good singer too. Also funny and beautiful is when she is “kulning”. You should check that out.
Here in the UK (Northern England) it's dark when I go to work, spend all day in the office under artificial light, then come home in the dark. But, the solstice has passed - we're heading back towards the Sun... :)
And then Northern England is as far north as Scania, our southernmost province... Just saying.
As a Swede suffering with depression, these darker months really hurt me.
@@NomN83 ??? not the right thing to say dude. Read up on what depression is.
@@NomN83 Not how depression or seasonal depression works at all, I understand you're trying to be positive but going "just do/think like this" to someone struggling with depression is extremely ignorant.
Käka d vitamin man, femtio % av alla som har vinterdepression lider av D-vitaminbrist. Stay safe bro
@@fappe908 Ska testa
Jonnas channel is amazing, she is so good at capturing the beauty of the world where she lives. Also her dog Nanouk is the star of many of the videos.
It's very normal to make your own juice from berries here in Finland too.
24 hours of darkness is only experienced north of the arctic circle. This is the definition of the arctic circle.
Just to give you an indication of how far north JJ lives, her house is only some 40km (25 miles or so) south of a place in Alaska called Delta Junction. And as far north as that might sound to you, she still has almost _half_ of the country north of her! And even the northernmost parts of Sweden are inhabited, although the density does drop off quite quickly outside of the major population centres.
That "sparkling" sound that you hear during the Aurora borealis (northern light) is all in your imagination. It is absolutly quiet. It occures very high up...50-100 miles up. By the way...Denmark, Swweden and Norway belongs to Scandinavia.
Only sound that comes from the northern light is "wow" from the spectators.
Nope, sweden, norway and the west north of Finland- österbotten is Scandinavia.
@@MJ-fh9hj Andra har också frågat
Vad räknas som Skandinavien?
Skandinavien är en del av Norden. Som geopolitiskt område omfattar Skandinavien Sverige, Norge och Danmark. I undantagsfall kan Finland räknas dit.
Everybody arguing about Scandinavia.
*Fennoscandia* Cries.
Actually researchers (Unto K. Laine, 2012) have been able to pinpoint that sound of the northen lights. By triangulating the sound with 4 microphones they could calculate where it was coming from, and they found that there is a sparkling, sizzling sound that is created about 70-75 meters above ground (~230 feet). It’s believed to be caused by an inversion layer in the atmosphere that get’s charged by the solar storm and when the layer ”breaks” that’s what we hear on the ground :)
That inversion layer doesn’t always form though. It has to be a calm ”warm” day and a still cold night so that the temperatures and conditions are just right. The sounds have been heard mostly on very cold nights and this is probably the reason why we don’t always hear the sound when there is an active aurora borealis.
This video have remanded me how much I like Scandinavian accents
I live close to the Arctic circle, bit further north than she does, and sun is not seen much now, but summer is o on the other hand very bright. In Summer we can have thirty something degrees Celcius (32c=95f so mid/high 90s) and below - 40 in winter (same in both scales).
Reason for the warm summer is that the sun doesn't set, so it doesn't cool down at "night".
Actually making juice, jam, marmalade... From Berries is common up here in Northern Sweden, also picking wild herbs and such is common, my grandparents generation did that to just survive, together with the fishing and hunting.
farming enough to live well up here is almost impossible as growing season is so short.
Another thing, up here we have "space to move", roughly 1.5 square kilometer per person, and much more if you remove population in 5 largest cities.
Nice vid. Certainly worthwhile to explore the Scandinavian way of live and society as (by far) the most advanced in the Western world.
Was so happy to watch your reaction to this video. Have a great 2022!
Excellent video. Will need to check out some of her other videos.
Live in Aarhus Denmark (almost the center of our country).
Sunrise today is 08:51 and sunset is 15:48. Right now the ground is white and it is freezing - but closenes to the sea and especially the influence of the Gulf Stream combined with climate change means that this does not happen that often around Christmas. Our winters recently has mainly been like what it was in Nothern France when I was a child (too logn ago).
I feel the hardest part is in early spring when we get more and more sunlight, but quite often it get colder and colder (to a point).
An yes it can get quite hot up in northern Scandinavia in the summertime, especially when you are more inland and away from the Ocean and the Gulf Stream.
Yeah during a few weeks in recent years Sweden & Finland has been the warmest countries in Europe. Which sounds crazy to say. During the heatwaves that happend in 2019 i belive, my uncle traveled to Greece and had around 28+ while it was around 34+ in the shade the entire time in our part of Sweden.
The country sometimes mistaken for being Scandinavian is Finland. Scandinavia is Sweden, Norway and denmark.
You could argue that only Norway and Sweden are Scandinavia to since its the only countries whit land on the Scandinavian peninsula these days ;P Denmark get to come along for cultural and historical reasons. But they haven't owned any land in Scandinavia for some time now...
@@TheSlyngel Scandinavia is most commonly defiened on linguistic grounds, rather than geography. Sweden, Norway and Denmark speak Scandinavian languages, thus they are Scandinavian countries.
@@staffan- do they speak scandinavian in greenland? head of state in greenland queen Margrethe II of denmark, worlds biggest island i think =)
@@klastriangl975 The official language in Greenland is not Scandinavian, no. Greenlandic is an Inuit language. The Danish minority speak Danish of course. I would presume that Danish is used as a lingua franca, but I have no personal knowledge about Greenland.
@@TheSlyngel Finland has land there as well. The mountain range skanderna reaches well into Finland, but not into Denmark... And this peculiar idea of excluding Finland (half of Sweden before 1809) from Scandinavia is also pretty new.
A ' Tilt--Shift Lens ' on the camera is used to produce the "illusion" of the trees looking like miniatures ... she's used it /them to great effect in her video ... You'll have to google them to get more technical info.
Living in the UK we have very long summer days and very short winter days. Unfortunately it rarely snows in winter, as the snow seems to improve my mood. I take vitamin D and use SAD lights. The 21st December is the shortest day of the year. We get about 7 hours of twilight .
This is unfortunately compounded by the weird weather phenomena that gives the UK only about 3-4 hours of actual sunlight a day on average, making it among the least sunny locales on the continent. In the US it can be as much as 12 hours of sun a day in the southernmost states
I live in the south parts of Sweden where we sometimes get a lot of snow during the winter, and sometimes we don't get any that stays. I can totally agree on that the snow makes such a difference for the mood. Even if it's dark outside, the snow lights up everything and it can be really beautiful. It's not as gloomy and damp as it can be without it.
The now makes it a lot less dark and pure white snow always is a mood booster if you ain't one of those that has to clear it :)
The gulf stream really has a huge impact on the weather of northern Europe (including the brittish isles). So it's not that easy to a direct 1:1 comparison between places just because they are on the same lattitude. There are for sure places even in mainland US that have more severe winters than most places in sweden.
Happy New Year I live in the middle of sweden now but i lived in the far north for 30ish years and get nostalgic by this video. Love from Sweden
Shetland has similar daylight extemes
Love watching your streams,👍
I live on latitude 60 and it is a little over 50 miles / 80km north of Stockholm and in November we only got 3 hours 15 minutes of sun during the whole month when it was very cloudy and rainy but now we have under 6 hours the sun is over the horizon (8:52 goes it up and down 14:45) while in the summer it counts as dawn the darkest as the sun never goes down below 6´ below the horizon but the sun rises 3:25 and down 22:20 so it is quite dark an hour around 1 at night (but when the slope is so close it is light as it is darker during the day with rain clouds than it is an hour after the sun has set) and it is 13 hours it differs as the sun is up but more as it is bright.
But in the area where she lives they have had around -30C / -30F a few days ago while here in the "southern" part it has only been -17C / 0F for but today we have had -8C to -13C so little just in time for cars to start crashing and an ice layer on the roads but there is no obstacle as that is how winter is here. But it is also common for many people to feel down at the beginning of the years when they have not seen the sun for several months, but it helps a lot that many people eat vitamin D now. You saw the red berries she picks it is lingonberry and during the Viking Age and onwards it was the main source of vitamin C before other fruits with a high content of vitamin C in and it is something that is for a lot of dishes in Sweden (they should have it at IKEA and think it has elderberry juice in all stores if you want to know how it tastes (but there is some added sugar then but still)
I would recommend you to check out another channel with a Swedish girl who lives in the northernmost village (belongs to Norway on the island of Svalbard)
Cecilia Blomdahl
The first sunset in 128 days | Svalbard an island close to the North Pole
czcams.com/video/KLd-it8zAJc/video.html
LOAD SUNSET FOR 3 MONTHS | Polar Night on Svalbard begins
czcams.com/video/MSAQxhtJ9RY/video.html
recommends that you watch more of her videos and it is Swedish she talks to the dog but it is a special place with people from all over the world of quite a few inhabitants and there are more polar bears than people on the island so it is legal to bring a rifle outside the city center / village center
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longyearbyen
I live even further up north in Sweden. Sometimes when I'm walking my dog he wonder why I stop and just stand there, looking up. It's when the northern lights are showing. Can't take my eyes off of it! It's magical! It's a show!
Even in Scotland in Winter it gets dark about 3pm and in summer it can still be daylight at 10:30 till 11 at night.
even in Denmark where I live which is far to the south from the place in Sweden where she lives is the shortest day under 7 hours with sunlight and the longest days it hardly gets dark
Interesting video. Yes the southern polar region experiences the same totality as the north polar regions, but at opposite times of the year. Ie the southern dark period is around June, it has midnight sun in December.
I've been up in Scotland in high summer, and though the sun has dipped below the horizon, there is still a glow in the sky where it is sitting. I like that!
Never seen the northern lights, but I believe they are erily quiet and don't make a noise. It's annoying that every time they are shown on TV, the filmmakers feel obliged to add music. They often do in nature programme's. I'd rather hear the wind, the birds, or the sea, than a superimposed orchestra.
You asked about the southern hemisphere. I lived in Queenstown, New Zealand for about 10-11 years. I loved the summer , December to February roughly. The sun could be going down about 10-11 at night in the middle of summer , this would give some spectacular sunsets, the mountains adding to the beauty. With wiinter though came shorter days, it cold be getting dark around 5-6. The sun would be quite low during the day.
The name Scandinavia even comes from the southern region called earlier for Scandia/Scanza now called Skåne så the whole peninsula is now called Scandinavia including Danmark but excluding Finland. The weather is not near in Sweden as it is in Alaska, the summers in most Sweden can be pretty hot, that is because of the warm gulf stream that has in its origin in Gulf of Mexico. There is pretty much daylight with sun in the most populated Sweden, well maybe people from even more south thinks around 7 hours with sun is not enough. In the winter, Sweden are a country with big contrasts, in North Sweden with a lot of cold, snow and little and no sun at all, but in southern Sweden there can be at least 7 hours with sun, no snow at all and temperature difference in like 40 degrees Celsius sometimes compared to northern part of Sweden.
Before watching the video: to me it's quite an awesome experience in the summer, as someone who lives in the middle of Western Siberia. Sucks in the winter though. I don't live north enough to see northern lights (aurora borealis? At this time of year, at this time of day~~), so all there is just apartment blocks and their lighting.
Also, it can actually get pretty warm up here. When it hits +30, the only thing missing is beaches on the river and many lakes we have
love the Simpsons reference 😂
i live in sweden myself and i can assure you those northern winters are fun mostly a week and on videos. Its gets depressive pretty quick.
Sarah, Jonna Jinton, has a gorgeous channel, been a subscriber for years, I could see the 'love light in your eyes' 🤭 I too have fallen for her charms as would, I think everyone, male or female.
I love her fashion, her lifestyle, art, philosophy, as you say, her cinematography, is excellent. OK! enough about 'her'.
Seasons greetings to You, Roger, and Scarlet ... I already follow you on ig, being a lifelong, diehard 'Trekkie' I love your collab podcast, 'Tribbles and Transporters' Good fun ... Ciao for now ...
it is one of the best videos on youtube
Hi, Sarah, firstly I must congratulate you on selecting this, it was exceptionally interesting. Sweden is in Scandinavia along with Norway and Denmark.
The further away from the equator the bigger the difference in the amount of daylight in summer and winter. The same applies in the Southern Hempishere although there is very little land that far south apart from Antarctica. In the Southern hempishere this is now, of course mid summer.
Slightly further north to where this video was made there will be about 2 months of the year where it is total darkness 24 hours a day without even any twilight. I think I could cope with that better than continual daylight in the summer, I think I'd find that hard.
The climate of the Scandinavian and Nordic countries are not as harsh as it is in Alaska, Canada and northern Russia because of the Gulf Stream that brings warm(ish) water from the south up to Scandinavie following the coast of Norway.
Such a fantastic video and it was quite moving to see you reaction - completely captivated, hanging on every word and frame :-)
Very beautiful video. The arctic circle is the line denoting that any point further north will have at least one day of complete darkness (at winter solstice). Northern Scotland and southern Norway and Sweden are on very similar latitude. The difference between London and Edinburgh is about 300 miles and 45 minutes difference in day length (Very rough estimate)
Right now where I live (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) the sun will rise today as 8:26 and set at 4:32 giving us 8 hrs and 6 minutes of official daylight. We have already added a few minutes more of daylight since the Winter Solstice. It will of course be the opposite right after the Summer Solstice.
"Did you know that ice can sing?" Her title says it all, for some more Jonna (czcams.com/video/chxn2szgEAg/video.html)
North of the Polar Circle it gets dark during winter and you get midnight sun in the summer. I moved south of the Polar Circle after my military service when I was 21, and it was the first time in my life that I saw the sun in mid-December. When I lived far north in Finnmark, we'd usually get around 4 hours of light skies during the day.
You'd be surprised how early it gets dark in most of Europe during winter, not just far northern countries, we're further north than most Americans realise, I'm in the middle of England and it's dark here by 4:30pm - 5:00pm at the moment lol
And then you look at your map and realize that "oh would u know that, England is actually kidna far nogrth compared to -most of Europe-" and understand entirely why you have darkness at 4.30 just like we do in Southern Sweden.
Meanwhile, our friends over in France has to wait at least 1 or two hours before their darkness comes.
Loved that absolutely fantastic could listen to her voice all day, like the guy who narrates Wainwright walkes. Need to do more to combat the black dog
The Southern Hemisphere is actually much colder due to lack of land to absorb the heat from the suns rays
Yes its a "normal" to winter bathe I saw the way you looked when she jumped in the lake its a cultural thing we have done for centuries but it is becoming rare among us as younger generation doesn't care too much for the cold but its very healthy done right. She does live in a rural part of Sweden where there is far between cities but then again the Nordics are famed for their fairytales and the fantasy look people often comment so when they come here. We who live here doesn't really notice it much as it is our normal Denmark has their rolling hills Sweden their huge forest and Norway their mountains she is also a singer you should listen to her song Vargsången its a beuatiful song and she does herdingcalls too an old almost extinct tradition
it's wonderful with sauna....great to do.
@@kharnynb Yes it is
Really liked that you look things up! Not just assuming things, like many does. By doing so, you will learn a lot! Knowledge is power! as to inform you, I live abt 600 km up in Sweden from the south, right now we have about 6 hours of daylight, increasing with about 20 minutes a week. And on mars 20 it is Vårdagjämning, refered to as night and day are equal, but actually it is a time. It is the same with sommarsolstånd, höstdagjämning and vintersolstånd. Keep up the good work!
You asked about Lapland in another video. I don't know if you read my comment there, but Lapland (spelled Lappland in Swedish) is a historical province of Sweden. A part of the province is Finish since the treaty of Fredrikshamn on the 17 September 1809. After the 1808-09 war, Sweden had to cede all of Finland as well as a part of Sweden proper to Russia. Before the 1809 treaty the border between Sweden proper and Finland was the county boundary between (then) Västerbotten county and Uleåborg county.
I thought Jonna lived in Lapland, but it turns out that she lives in Ångermanland, although pretty close to Lapland. Swedish provinces are similar to the historical and ceremonial counties of the UK, while the old functions of the provinces have been taken over by the counties since the 1634 Instrument of Government. Wikipedia has a good article about Swedish lands, provinces and counties: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Sweden
Lapland is an area in both Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Sami people live there and in the part of Russia bordering the north of Finland and Norway.
@@annicaesplund6613 Yes, but the exactly defined region is just within the borders of Sweden and Finland.
As a Swede i love this film it is so beautyful. Thanks for showing it.
I grew up in Sörmland ( southern low / mid part ) in the 80's, and back then i remember how my seasons looked a lot more like this that Jonna showed. The climate impact has for sure affected everyrhing a lot. Southern Sweden gets a lot of extremes in both heat and cold nowadays from + 96 f heat to -22 f cold.
The light even mid Sweden is really short half the year, and suffering from Vitamin D shortage, it's very much felt. As for nature and the rustic feel that Norrland has in Jonnas beautiful videos, it's as many feel cared for and kept best there.
Many people have never experienced a real and old forest, walking by untouched fields of berries and moss and to drink straight from a clear water spring with no need for filtering or boiling the water first. It really makes you feel closer to nature, and you get a deeper love and respect for the reasources many take for granted.
So beautiful, I would love to live somewhere like this. I only need a fast internet connection, the missing light doesn't bother me since my normal circadian rhythm is to be awake at night anyways.
The sun is so tiring, burns on my skin and hurts my eyes :(
Anyways awesome video :)
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Yes, yes it is.
I don't live terribly far north in Norway, a little south of the artic circle, so there's always *some* daylight during the middle of the day in winter and always *some* twilight during the middle of the night in summer.
But where i live we also have a *lot* of overcast weather.
And given that you often don't have a *chance* to go outside and enjoy the sun when it's actually out there due to being at work, or school or whatever you end up losing out on the sun for long periods of time...
It's mentally tough...
Hello SoGal and Roger. I never got further than Copenhagen, which felt so like home that my picture elsewhere is of me in front of The Little Mermaid statue. I ran out of time before crossing to Sweden and never got to revisit the area.
I pointed out in comments how light it was in Scotland for the football extra time last summer.
We are quite far north here in northern England, but the Gulf Stream keeps it warmer than Scandinavia, though you can need to wrap up in summer as it is also on a line with the most southern part of Alaska.
I just wrote this bit then you got the map out in the video.
It can get very cold here in winter if the wind comes across the North Sea from Siberia. Especially with lockdowns the vitamin D tablets can be needed.
I used to go berry picking on the moors here in summer as a kid, for fruit pies and for jam to keep for winter.
When young I worked night and day on student projects, then on work reports to hit deadlines, but you find this takes a toll eventually.
I used to love midsummer weekends when you could go clubbing by twilight and come out with the sun already raising the temperature and eat breakfast outside an all night cafe. It does not last forever.
What a beautiful video to watch on Xmas Day.
Something about it just looks so alluring. I'm from Minnesota anyway so I can handle cold, and even here sunset was about 4:45 pm today. I just wonder if I could handle that extreme. I feel like I'd appreciate the sun a lot more if I barely saw it for a month or so.
" Seasonal Affective Disorder " ( S.A.D ) sometimes known as "Winter depression" can affect mood & make people have a loss of interest in normal everyday activities, make you feel lethargic / sleepy during the day and gain weight ..... ( soon to be renamed Lockdown Disorder , probably ! !😂)
Antidote for depression in some cases can be helped by working with your body. Jonna has everyday chores that keeps her fit and that together with cold baths and yoga I believe depression is not a problem?
There is another video here, where you can hear her sing.
I love the swedish nature. I love the bright summer nights and I really love the dark winters. When it is really dark afternoons and cold weather I love talking long walks in the nature.
For an extreme version of this, Cecilia Blomdahl's channel is a good choice - she and her boyfriend live on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the northernmost continuously-inhabited town on the planet.
A suggestion SoGal is to watch one of Jonna's videos of "kulning", a special kind of haunting song used to herd cows. It's absolutely beautiful.
Not many people live where she lives and even fewer live North of where she lives. 8/10 in Sweden lives in the bottom 1/3 of the country and she lives in the middle ish. The different communities that live inland in middle and Northern Sweden are very tiny, with groups of houses at maximum 10-20 and the area is 90% woodland wilderness like in these drone shots. She lives almost 30 minutes of driving through a rural round in the wilderness away from another small community of houses.
For me here in the UK, it's, aside for the bouts of rain and strong winds, seemingly endless days of gloom - that constant overhanging oppressive dreary greyness - that really does my head in. It came as something of a shock today when sunlight suddenly appeared, enough for me to turn to my window and stare with wonderment, and then in a moment it was gone again. Sometimes I keep my indoor lamps on all day, if only to give me cheer!
Thanks for the video, SoGal. Robert, UK.
Where I am, about 12 miles north of London sunrise and sunset are as you read out, in midsummer we have daylight from 4 am to 10 pm. Further north the difference is greater. In Shetland at this time of year the sun doesn't rise until after 9 and has set again by 3 in the afternoon. In midsummer in Shetland the sun rises just after 3.30 am and sets just after 10.30pm so with twilight there is little darkness, that's about as far north as we go in the UK. Hope that's a help.
To answer your question yes Southern Sweden is not as dark nor light as the north. But its still pretty dark here around Göteborg (Gothenburg) now in December and its light until really late in the summer. The high north is just more extreme and the only place you can comfortably watch the northen lights in Sweden. There are also way fewer people up there so you get the whole place more or less to yourself.
I love Jonna's description of longing for the daylight. Even though I live in the southern parts of Sweden you still feel the lack of sunlight - especially if you need to stay indoors at work all day and miss out on the sunlight. It's very true what she says about feeling like seeing the sun for the first time again in January when the days slowly get longer. It's quite common to see people in warm clothes in winter/early spring standing on a leeward side of a garage, house etc with their eyes closed and face directed upwards, just soaking in some long awaited sunlight.
You cant go to Sweden and guarantee you'll se the northern lights.
Its depentent on solar storms so the weather on the sun needs to be right.
What its like seeing it in person cannot be described in images.
Its like comparing a hamburger with one made from cardboard images just lacks the depth of the experience.
We had the northern lights here in stockholm three years ago which is very rare that it is that strong
Depends on how long she's willing to stay. The northern lights appear many times during the winter at Jonnas latitude. Missing out of them is possible, but you're guaranteed to see them at least once per month.
When I was young I slept with the curtains open and got used to waking up when it gets light.
I have been to Stockholm twice for work. The first time was in January. There were no windows where I was working (not even the canteen) so for me it seemed dark all day. The next time was just before midsummer. I went to bed at 11:30pm and was woken by the light at 3am.
I live in southern Sweden and we have had 3 days of snow this far. (31st dec)
I moved from this to Minnesota and I remember vividly a day at the bank where I said weather was fantastic because the sun was high in the sky with no clouds and the person behind the counter said yes and something about the winter darkness being so hard on people and I know I couldn't hide the confusion on my face because when you have 8+ hours of sunlight and still call it darkness.... I can't compute it when I know what true darkness is like. The darkness used to hit my mental health really hard. Every August when days started to get shorter the depression kicked in and it was rough until about March but here in MN I haven't had seasonal depression whatsoever. It still blows my mind when people talk about the darkness after 9 years here because sunshine every day all year round is such a blessing! Having a reliable day and night rhythm all year is such a gift too in my book. My body still is messed up that when it's dark my body is used to fighting the tiredness and get up and work and during daylight I'm so trained in trying to get sleep anyway despite light that I'm the most tired at sunrise. What's neat though is that light skincolor can absorb vitamin D quite well from the moon and light colored eyes can see well in low light conditions so the darkness doesn't seem that bad when you are used to it. You notice it the most when you get away from it. Also yes we still have brown eyed people xD
Norden light we also had this in southern sweden which is unusual in 2021
We are used to the light and dark, but I think we have a higher percentage of people who have problems connected to it than most places. And it makes us appreciate the sun and warmth so much more.
15:00 Haha, that's pretty common in Sweden. Both my mom and grandma does it and they live close to the forest but we're in a not so small city still. Mom also picks mushrooms.
Some of her videos are great, this is one of them. Gets me chocked up, same with the national anthem.
The 30-35th Southern Parallel where Southern America, South Africa and Austria is, is way too close to the equator. They are closer to the equator than New York City and most of Europe. You need to be on Antarctica or on a ship near Antarctica to see the "Southern Lights" and it is a bit more complicated because of the Earths's Weather System in that region.
The Southern Ocean had the name changed to Antarctic Ocean after the Antarctic continent was discovered, then it was changed backs again sometime in the 80's I think, someone might remember when. It was often referred to and charted as the Great Southern Ocean as no one had sailed across it North to South and back North again. Antarctica was just a blank open ocean space on charts and maps.
I come from Gothenburg in the south of Sweden on the swedish west coast. The climate is very different. We do occasionally get some snow and ice, but after a couple of days it starts to rain again and it washes away.
D-vitamin is a must for me in the winter. Love the night sky in the winter and always missed it when I didn't live up north. I don't like summer or winter in the south of Sweden because it is so much darker there, a different kind off light. When is dark in the south you barely see hand in front of you, I never need a flashlight up north. But that's just my experience.
The midnight sun only exists north of the Arctic circle but we still get pretty extreme day/night cycles here in southern Sweden.
Also southern Sweden looks quite different since it's a lot more densely populated and it is possible to grow food here. So we have more fields for farming as well as cities and towns. In fact over 75% of Swedens population lives in the southern half of the country.
Sweden benefit from they gulf stream, so it's warmer in the summers compared to Alaska, I live north of where Jonna lives, and in the summer it can be 30 degres C , 86 F.
No, it doesn't work like that. Atlantic Ocean cools Scandinavia during summer. You get 30C only when high pressure is dominant(continental climate) and it blocks out oceanic climate. And when oceanic climate is dominant, you get rolling low pressure systems with rains, winds and cooler temps.
In winter it's opposite.
@@kognak6640 Can't find any info on that the Atlantic Ocean would have any such effect, in fact just finding the exact opposite, it slowing down causes temperature drops.
@@Dead25m You can't find? It's basic elementary school knowledge how oceans cool during summer and warm during winter compared to continental climate. North Atlantic is pretty cold even in summer, it's 10-15C. It's not going to make summers warmer. In Bergen, Norway average July high temp is 16C. Helsinki, Finland it's 21C. Moscow, Russia it's 25C.
Norwegian here, checking in. had a glimpse into the comment section, didnt look like anyone else mentioned it,so, regarding your question on getting depressed in the winter times, it truly is a thing up here, at least in Norway we call it the winter depression. it can sometimes get a bit gloomy, but it normally goes away when the spring arrives, and we start to see the sun more.
That was very interesting to watch, both the video and your observations.
The woman who made the film was young and fit, so living that lifestyle would be easier than if she was an older person with the physical changes that come with age.
Try looking up the sunrise and sunsets in Unst (one of the most northerly parts of the UK) we don't ever have midnight sun, or 24 hour darkness here, but there are days in the summer where it is never truely night
It's like this in Norway and Finland too, very beautifull scenery and so fresh air. You appreciate it when you come from some big city, where your eyes literally stings because of pollution in the air.
Regions like this, you can really breath and feel the huge difference, and how peacefull it is. Love it 👍
Depression is high in during winter in Sweden, can feel it myself, and many got a job when you dont see the outside during job, so dark when going and leaving job
I'm from eastern finland, and yes the southern parts are a little less extreme, but not by that much when it comes to the light conditions. The north has a lot more snow and for bigger portion of the year, colder temperatures more common as well. It was fun to see your reactions to life that is very much normal to me, it reminded me of how different lives can be on different parts of the earth.
Yes, the darkness is hard. It's hard to keep being productive. But, you keep living your life and the darkest part has soon passed. Spring winter is much more pleasant, but all parts of the year has their own attractions, and I honestly wouldn't change it. I'm used to it. I like it. The conditions are always changing, slowly, and each time I'm looking forward to the next one coming. It keeps life interesting. And it makes you appreciate things more. I appreciate and love the sun so much, but if it was always there, I'd probably barely notice it. There is also something very magical about winter that other seasons just don't have. I hope you get to experience it one day!
Thanks for a nice video, and I agree, Jonna is a great film maker! I live in Stockholm, which is considered the southern part of Sweden. In the brightest weeks of the summer, the sun rises about 3 am and sets around 10-10:30 pm, but it's just around one hour when it's actually dark. For the darkest weeks in the winter, the sun rises around 8:30 I think, and sets just before 3 pm and it's pitch black at 4 pm. So, if you work in an office, it's dark when you heading to work and it's dark when going back home. Now, in the end of januari, it rises at 8 and sets at 4 so if you're lucky you can still have a glimpse of daylight in the afternoon.
I live in the Stockholm area. During midwinter in December. The sun isn't up until around 10:30 and it sets already by 14:30 (2:30 pm) And it is just slightly visible above the horizon.
I would think having half of the year dark then half of the year bright would make you appreciate both the darkness and the light as you are deprived of that thing. The only place ive been with no light pollution was North wales and that was the only time i realised that there are so many stars i think i also live in a cloudy area so on most nights especially through winter the sky is a dark grey with the street light luminating upwards to the clouds. Although the birds tweeting at night is something that happens that i like, around 1am-2am im assuming they are nocturnal birds
Scandinavia is a region that includes Norway, Sweden & Finland
It looks like you could have to be very self-reliant to live that far north. How far is it to the nearest shopping centre or indeed, just a shop? In the north of Scotland I always found it strange when the pubs closed and I left to find that the sun was still up! I do prefer having a longer twilight that comes with living in the north to the sun always seeming to go down by 8pm closer to the equator.
Will we be seeing Scarlett (& SoGal, wrapped up ! ) running around in 4 foot of snow any time soon ! ... that would be a fun video to film and watch ... looking forward to seeing Scarlett chasing snowballs !! 😀
In southern sweden we don't get this extrem. On winter solstice, we have sun rise 08:45 and 15:23 in my town (~57°N). We have oceanic climate (close to the climate in partes of the appalachian mountains). Some winters we don't get any snow or only slushy snow. This is caused by the mexican gulf stream that transports hot air from Mexico, Texas, Florida etc. over the Atlantic ocean to Norway and Sweden (and the UK?)
Utterly mesmerising. I'm full of things to say, and at the same time speechless. Every second of it was a rare experience. As for the southern hemisphere, I'm sure it's just the same in terms of light. We don't hear about it because there are so few land masses close to the Antarctic circle.
I grew up in the northern parts of Sweden, just shy of the arctic circle. In the winter the sun barely peeked over the horizon, and in the summer just dipped below the trees. I live since the past couple of decades in the south, and I now realize I miss the difference in tempo. In the winter everything slowed down and we looked after one and another extra carefully. In the summer we could sit and chat with friends, solving world-problems, and suddenly the birds starts to sing and you glance at the watch, and it's 4.30 in the morning the next day. Now-a-days it is full speed ahead, regardless of tempo and the well-being of others. I find the seasons, and years, just fly past me, without me accomplishing anything meaningful.
The temperatures at least in Finland are what you would call 'continental' - cold winters, but warm summers. And of course the summers are getting warmer and the winters less cold and more wet in general, thanks to the climate change. We get much less consistent snow cover in southern Finland today than in my childhood during the 1980's. The change is noticeable.
Really? I live in Vaasa and the winters here have been getting colder every year. Just last month we had -29°c wich is insanely cold considering the location of the city
I'll give living there a miss x. I'm sure she is a Pagan but fantastically made. The film that is .....well and her. Thanks for sharing 👍