Remember that Sweden is roughly 2100km from north to south so we have many climate zones. The winter darkness is rough in Stockholm but where she lives it’s extreme. In the summer when the sun doesn’t set you can go skiing in the midnight sun. If you flip Sweden upside down you end up in south of Italy. Then you can imagine the scale.
Hello Chris. I live about 15 minutes from where this video was filmed (she has moved now, further inland, to Sollefteå). We are very proud of the films she has posted about our area 🙂
About the big fire. Every year during the last day of April we all have a day called Valborgsmässoafton( you may know it as Walpurgis? its actually a German thing originally) where we make biiiig bonfires called "Majbrasa" (May bonfire) where we burn sticks, leaves and other things we have cleaned up from our gardens after the snow has melted. Every village usually makes their own and they can be huuge! Then we light it and we all just stand around the big bonfire and we have speeches and songs to welcome spring...and sometimes parties! here is a video about the subject: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HbkyfZjjonM.html
Its Walpurgisnacht (Walpurgis night). :) Thank you for the recommendation. Does litterally every village and city do it?. But Walpurgisnacht has something to do with witches in Germany I think.
I live about 400 kilometers north of where Jonna lives and those that dont live in a town usually drives to a town once a week or so to get supplies or have it delivered to where they live if they cant go themselves. Its not really a problem but for sure people is dependent on those deliveries of course. During the coldest winter i dont really go outside much if i dont need to as when it is below -30C its not very nice outside. But now when you get to actually see the sun again and the days are getting longer its an amazing time of the year. During the summer i just use some thicker curtains for easier sleep other than that its amazing with the light during the nights. I wouldnt say most people is as in touch with the nature as Jonna is, she is one of a kind but picking berries in the fall to make jam or to drink is pretty common id say. Especially blueberries, lingonberries and cloudberries.
By the way why does everybody know where Jonna lives, doesn’t she have any privacy I mean she is a famous RU-vidr and if everybody know where she lives that can’t be good 😅
@@ChrisSweden I dont really know exactly where she lives i just know in what area as she is open with that. Therefore i know approximately how far from where i live it is. She has even mentioned in several videos what the little village she lives in is called. Afaik she hasnt been stalked or anything like that and hopefully it continues this way but surely as a big youtuber its better if people dont know exactly where you lives i would think.
6:50 Let's put it this way, kids in the north of Sweden don't miss a school day because there is snow outside. I remember living in Berlin when there was some snow coming and parents got scared. They'll skii to school. Roads out, fine.
Hi! I live in Göteborg in the south of Sweden, and down here the light conditions and weather is much more like in Germany than in the North of Sweden.
I wold not say everyone in sweden is that close to nature but many pepole in sweden love the nature and are close to nature. Many pepole in sweden love to be outside in nature aspesally in summer but even winter and spring but in atum it just rain all the time.💚💚
Thats so interesting, I said that in the last video, I never think about Sweden in rainy weather in the winter, I think they have always snow in this season😅
In Stockholm you get around 6 hours of daylight in January, as a comparison. A little better. I live 200 km south of Stockholm and to me, winters are getting tougher on my mental health every year. I force myself to go out midday for a hint of daylight even if the weather is bad. If you’re out of luck you won’t see the sun for a week or so during weekdays. We usually don’t have that much snow as in Joanna’s video down here, and that’s a bit depressing. The white snow reflects light and make the surroundings feel bright and not so winter gloomy. I def prefer that. I eat vitamin d supplements, but I’m not sure how well they work. I try to keep up the routine of working out during winter, but sometimes it’s hard. Lacking daylight and sunlight makes you have less energy in general. I guess it differs for everyone but for me it’s hard. A guaranteed “medicine” for this is to travel to somewhere warmer and charge your batteries. I know it’s not good for the climate, but what the h*ll should I do? 😂
Exactly the same at those parts of Finland, that are located above the Arctic Circle. Yes, the contrast between winter and summer light conditions are quite dramatic in the southern parts of the country, as well, but the contrast is still not that strong.
@@ChrisSweden it won't get genuinely dark at all, in fact. There is a short period of twilight, however from around 23pm to approximately 00.30-1.00 am. After this brief period the sun starts to already rise again.
"I knew Sweden was north, but not THAT north." Well, what part of Swede are you thinking of? If you live in the southeast parts, like Ystad, you're equally far from the northeast parts of Sweden (Abisko) as you are to Rom in Italy. That's insane.
Probably I am closer, because I live in the south of Germany 😂 (or did you mean the second "you" as "somebody") (that would be cool, because we have this use of "Du" in German as well ,but there is no perfect equivalent in English)
Sweden has a few fjords but in no way anything like Norway. We have lots of rivers, and lakes, however. About 55-60% forest (mostly upper half of Sweden).
Där finns så mycket vackert att se i våra länder. Så jag kommer inte okay på vanliga semester reser hädanefter. Finns så mycket fint jag vill se i Sverige Norje Danmark Finland. Sen Island hade varit en dröm att uppleva
Unfortunately, most people are definetly not in touch with nature, Most people live in cities and have no idea what berries, mushrooms etc you can eat without dying lol. =P
I live in the north of sweden and i think it depends on if you are in the south ore north of sweden and if you are in a citty. Becouse its esier if you are in a bigger citty then if you are in a smole citty, ore outside of a citty
Personally I don't have a problem with the darkness, at least not when it comes to energy, but many people do. I live a bit further north than she does and last november I saw the sun only once! Sure it's a bit boring with all the dark clouds but I find a bit of charm to it. If you ever visit Sweden you should definitly come to the north, above the arctic circle the midnight sun truly is beautiful.
Some disclaimers: Where she lives, there is no polar night or polar day. Most people also aren't as close to nature as she is. In pretty much every city you will find similar ways of living as to pretty much anywhere else in Sweden and Northern Europe. Even in the far north fresh fruits and vegetables can be found in any grocery store.
Sweden is quite a big country. I live just north of Gothenburg, but my strategy is just going outside at the same time, no matter the darkness. It helps having a rutine that that you follow Even here in the south it gets dark at 2-3 pm, during the darkest time, so you need to have something to combat the lack of sunlight.
Sweden is so long and stretched out county, so it's quite different from the very north to the very south, both when it comes to light conditions, weather and how the country looks, and how populated it is. Treriksröset, where Sweden borders both Norway and Finland, the most Northern point is at 69°, while the most Southern point of Sweden is at 55°. The distance between them are 1 567 km. It's like if you were to put the Northern tip of Sweden in Berlin, then the Southern tip would be in the Southern part of Sardinia in the Mediterrenian, and the place where Jonna Jinton lives would be in Innsbruck in Austria. So she lives in the North, but not in the far north.
@weden Well... that's more "Google school", to be honest (I think I did learn that Sweden is about 1500 km from North to South in school though)... And also playing around with the website "the true size of", check it out, if you haven't already. It gives you the opportunity to take any country on the map and place it somewhere else in the world. It's really fun (if you're a bit nerdy, like me) and educational, you realize that countries in the North, like Sweden, are actually smaller in reality than we percieve them to be on a normal map, and countries like Brazil is humongous. Madagascar is bigger than Sweden, even if it doesn't look like that on a regular map.
When it comes to the fire....Its not the size, its how you use it. ;) Big fires are safe in the right conditions, but most often not that usefull. It is however often used for selebrations
85% of the population lives in the bottom third of Sweden. And only 3% of the country is built up land, with 7% agriculture and 69% forest. So yes, we have space. If we had the same ppl/km2 as Denmark, we would have a population close to 80 million people (10,67 million atm). At the moment top half of Sweden have a snow depth of between 40 - 142 cm, keep in mind spring is on its way.
I live on her latitude. During winter time I can sometimes get depressed. But then! Suddenly I see a bit of sunlight and hope is lit. I MMS (every year) all my children down in Stockholm. Says "check... the sun" Then it just gets brighter to finally be bright (sun up) 24/7. I like the hard contrast. Makes me feel alive. Did/do you know? That the Northern Lights have sound. YES! Sometimes you can hear the Northern Lights making sounds like rustling paper, or static electricity. Standing under a sky completely covered by the Northern Lights can make one believe in God. It is so overwhelmingly beautiful. OK. She, or/and I, don't have too far to the store. A single one in a small municipality. But it takes a long time to get there. I myself have a snowmobile but try (if it's not too cold). We just had minus 39 Celsius skiing just for fun. OK, I'm lying. Mostly use the snowmobile. NOW It's getting brighter every day! Now I won't be negative, but. There is no real scientific data that says that ice cold baths benefit health. On the other hand, nothing that contradicts. IF one experiences health benefits = OK. Personally, I like ice cold baths when there's a sauna I can sprint to. AND, honestly. I feel stronger after an ice bath. Of all the berries we have. HJORTRON, Gold of the forest..
