In Sweden, the season of the midnight sun is here again

[Celerity]

In the most northernmost parts of the country, the sun will now not set until mid-July.

https://www.thelocal.se/20210521/in-sweden-the-season-of-the-midnight-sun-is-here-again/



It’s the season of the midnight sun (midnattssol) when the sun remains fully above the horizon around the clock. At 1.02am on Thursday, the sun went up at Sweden’s northernmost point Treriksröset, and it will stay there until mid-July. As of today (00.56), the season of the midnight sun has also begun at Sweden’s most northerly inhabited location, Keinovuopio.

In Kiruna, the northernmost town in the country, the sun will set at 00.23 on May 27th, before rising at 00.49 the same day and remaining visible 24/7 until July.

Even if you do not live in an area that gets the midnight sun in Sweden, the days are still growing longer. Down in Stockholm, the sun is currently up for almost three quarters of the day (more than 17 hours), and the same is true in Gothenburg, with Malmö getting more than 16 hours of sunlight each day.

The summer solstice, when the day is at its longest and the night at its shortest, is on June 21st.

[jpak]

1. I've worked in the high Arctic and low Antarctic

And 24 sun is wonderful

Except when you're trying to sleep in a tent.

[Celerity]

3. I can sleep in any light or lack thereof, lol. IF it was like this year round (or close to it,

especially temp wise), we would have 60 to 80 million people (at least) though, which is far too many, even though we are quite large a country geographically. I would say 20, 25 million is about as large as I would want it, as most of that is going to be in the southern third of the nation state, so counts triple in terms of density. I have come to love vast expanses of forested areas, which I barely had growing up in London other than forays far outside of the metro area.



My wife and I are in the process of deciding if we are going to stay here in Stockholm longer term, and if so, we will probably have a sommarstuga (summer home) built either out on the archipelago or up near Sigtuna. Deffo want something minimalist and modern, something along the lines of these:

[jpak]

4. Wow

Worked in Copenhagen many years ago.

Loved it and the long summer nights.

I have a 122 YO camp on a lake here in Maine.

Love it

Hope you find your cool swedish getaway.

[CrispyQ]

5. I would be happy living in any of those fab houses! -nt

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Beautiful photos!

Thanks for sharing!

I was lucky enough to travel to Finland many years ago and was there in late June. At 11pm the sun was still out and you had broad daylight. It was like nothing I’d ever seen before (or since).

[mac2766]

6. How does constant sunlight affect temperature?

[TomWilm]

9. Not much, since it is so high North ...

... and the Sun is very far away, though "night" feels a bit colder. Some farmers with fields on the good side of the hills can do two crops a year. Weather can change drastic though, if the general wind shifts to coming from south to north, bringing in the cold from the Barents Sea area - from a warm sunny day a few hours later into a snow storm!

[mac2766]

10. Sounds like a very cool (pun) climate.

How about solar production during this period? I know that as the sun sinks lower into the horizon during the winter months here, and the days get shorter, my panels don't produce nearly as much as they do in the spring and summer months. I'd imagine that would be offset by having 24 hours of daylight. No matter how low the sun is on the horizon.

I think it would be interesting to witness. The 24 hours of daylight.

[TomWilm]

11. Here is too much info for you :).

... Most people outside the Arctic view the North as a dark place with few hours of sunshine which makes solar power impossible. But exactly these myths have to be destroyed. In sum, some places in the Arctic receive as much solar energy as southern regions in Europe. Low temperatures and snow reflections even increase the efficiency of the modules. ...

- Solar radiation in Tromsø.
https://en.tutiempo.net/solar-radiation/tromso.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544220319459

Sun energy is very much possible, but generally wind mills is a better match for the area.

I do not live so high North, but have been visiting plenty of times, both summers and winters, and all the countries in the area - Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. I was for weeks in a camp with little contact to the outside world, and could later see, that our "days" became longer and longer - sliding up to 26-28 hours long.

[mac2766]

14. Wind - yes.

I know that I've seen/read about the wind turbine fields there. Where I'm at, the average wind speed is 7 knots. Not enough to justify a wind turbine. We put our solar panels on the house about 3 1/2 years ago. I love sunny days.

[Ocelot II]

7. I was in Anchorage, AK on midsummer a few years ago,

and it's definitely an interesting experience to be wandering around downtown late at night because it's still light outside and you can't sleep. There's a really good movie, Insomnia, which takes place in Tromsø, above the Arctic Circle. It's about how a police officer who can't sleep comes unglued during a murder investigation. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119375/ There was an American remake with the same name but it isn't nearly as good as the original.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. That map showing Sweden imposed on U.S. is good for comparing size, but ...

... the northern tip of Maine is a little south of the 48th parallel. The southern tip of Sweden is a little north of the 55th parallel. Sweden is "way up north".

Where I lived as a kid in Braintree, Essex, England, is around 51st parallel, so still well north of anything in the continental U.S. Snow, however, was rare. Long summer days were great. Long winter nights were dismal.

[Celerity]

13. thank fuck for the gulf stream, lolol

I grew up in West London (South Kensington). I never made it to Braintree I do not think (barring some drive with my parents when I was too little to have awareness). Brentwood (my older sis had a BF for a few months out there, and would drag me along to 'shop' as an excuse for mummy ) was about my limit on wanders into Essex.