Storlien
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| Climate | Dfc |
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| Snowmaking | yes | |
| Night skiing | Every Friday at "Slalombacken" | |
Storlien [ˈstuːrˌliːən] is a village and ski resort located in Åre municipality in Jämtland, Sweden, two kilometres from the Swedish-Norwegian border. The primary bases of the settlement are tourism and outdoor life – alpine skiing, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, hunting, fishing and hiking. During the 2000s, retail sales to customers from Norway become important, and most of the tourists in Storlien are Norwegians. The Swedish royal family has a house in Storlien, where they usually celebrate Easter and the New Year. There was also previously a sanitarium. Storlien was formerly the centre of winter activities for Skidfrämjandet, now Friluftsfrämjandet, an organisation that promotes outdoor leisure, and played a major role in developing downhill skiing in Sweden.
Storlien has, among other services, a hotel called Storliens högfjällshotell ('Storlien Mountain Lodge') and a holiday village called Fjäll-lien. A large part of the village is owned by the Lars Nilsson estate, a real estate agent. The hotel was formerly the largest in the country. In 2011 Ulrich John, a Stockholm real-estate investor, bought it, the lifts and "a few thousand hectares of mountain",[2] but he sold the hotel in 2013.[3]
History
Until the beginning of the 19th century, Storlien was mostly used by Norwegians for hunting, fishing and summer pasturing. The village was first settled in 1844, and late in the 19th century began its development into a tourist centre. The
The Swedish ski pioneer
During World War II Storlien was used by the military and was a restricted destination. In 1940, top-secret military negotiations between Sweden and Nazi Germany were held there in a railway carriage.
In 1942 the first ski lift opened in Storlien, the second one to be built in Sweden. In 1958 the hotel was expanded to a capacity of 550 guests; it was the largest in the country and in the mid-1960s employed 274 people.[6]
Between 1972 and 1995, the industrialist Matts Carlgren was majority shareholder of the hotel, which went bankrupt in 1998. The following year Lars Nilsson bought the hotel and the surrounding land, around 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres), for 37 million kronor.[9] In July 2011, Stockholm real-estate investor Ulrich John bought the hotel and a substantial part of the mountain.[2] The hotel did not open for the 2012–13 season,[6] but a new owner has held it open during the 2013–14 season.
Storlien has been popular among visitors from the Norwegian county of Trøndelag, who go there for border shopping, mountain cabins, and skiing. After traditionally only having a small grocery store in the village centre, the shopping selection sharply increased in the 2010s, with a Coop Extra opening in 2011, and Eurocash in 2014,[10] culminating in the shopping centre Fjellhandel opening in 2020.[11]
Ski area
The ski area at Storlien has nine lifts and 23 slopes. However, the vertical drop is a comparatively low 191 m (627 ft), and consequently the slopes are quite short. There are three children's areas with
Climate
Storlien's climate is a maritime-influenced
Storlien is cooled down sizeably by its elevation of 600 metres (2,000 ft), which renders summers a lot cooler than in coastal towns on similar latitudes such as Trondheim and Sundsvall in spite of being located in the interior.
| Climate data for Storlien (2002–2020 averages; extremes since 1901) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 9.1 (48.4) |
7.8 (46.0) |
9.0 (48.2) |
15.4 (59.7) |
27.7 (81.9) |
29.3 (84.7) |
30.0 (86.0) |
28.0 (82.4) |
26.5 (79.7) |
19.9 (67.8) |
12.2 (54.0) |
9.1 (48.4) |
30.0 (86.0) |
| Mean maximum °C (°F) | 4.2 (39.6) |
3.6 (38.5) |
5.5 (41.9) |
10.8 (51.4) |
20.1 (68.2) |
23.9 (75.0) |
25.6 (78.1) |
23.6 (74.5) |
19.1 (66.4) |
12.8 (55.0) |
7.4 (45.3) |
5.1 (41.2) |
26.8 (80.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.7 (27.1) |
−2.6 (27.3) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
4.4 (39.9) |
9.9 (49.8) |
14.8 (58.6) |
17.8 (64.0) |
16.5 (61.7) |
11.7 (53.1) |
5.2 (41.4) |
0.8 (33.4) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
6.2 (43.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −6.0 (21.2) |
−5.8 (21.6) |
−3.8 (25.2) |
0.7 (33.3) |
5.5 (41.9) |
10.0 (50.0) |
12.9 (55.2) |
11.9 (53.4) |
7.9 (46.2) |
2.2 (36.0) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
−4.6 (23.7) |
2.4 (36.3) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −9.3 (15.3) |
−9.0 (15.8) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
−3.0 (26.6) |
1.1 (34.0) |
5.2 (41.4) |
8.0 (46.4) |
7.3 (45.1) |
4.0 (39.2) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
−5.1 (22.8) |
−7.8 (18.0) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
| Mean minimum °C (°F) | −23.2 (−9.8) |
−23.3 (−9.9) |
−20.2 (−4.4) |
−12.8 (9.0) |
−6.1 (21.0) |
−0.3 (31.5) |
1.9 (35.4) |
0.6 (33.1) |
−2.5 (27.5) |
−11.3 (11.7) |
−16.7 (1.9) |
−20.1 (−4.2) |
−27.2 (−17.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −39.5 (−39.1) |
−36.3 (−33.3) |
−35.0 (−31.0) |
−27.0 (−16.6) |
−19.0 (−2.2) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−2.0 (28.4) |
−6.2 (20.8) |
−8.0 (17.6) |
−25.0 (−13.0) |
−34.0 (−29.2) |
−38.8 (−37.8) |
−39.5 (−39.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 73.6 (2.90) |
63.0 (2.48) |
68.4 (2.69) |
49.2 (1.94) |
53.2 (2.09) |
83.1 (3.27) |
92.2 (3.63) |
91.8 (3.61) |
111.7 (4.40) |
76.2 (3.00) |
61.5 (2.42) |
79.5 (3.13) |
903.4 (35.56) |
| Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) | 75 (30) |
94 (37) |
109 (43) |
102 (40) |
51 (20) |
4 (1.6) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
2 (0.8) |
16 (6.3) |
30 (12) |
49 (19) |
113 (44) |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 25 | 54 | 114 | 171 | 199 | 174 | 191 | 163 | 106 | 81 | 35 | 13 | 1,326 |
| Source 1: SMHI Open Data[14] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: SMHI climate data 2002–2020[15] | |||||||||||||
Transport
The closest airports are
In popular culture
Storlien is mentioned in The Boys From Brazil.
References
- Dagens Industri. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
- ^ a b Svensson, Henry (2011-07-19). "Almåsas ägare köper hotellet i Storlien". Östersunds-Posten (in Swedish). Retrieved 2013-07-28.
- ^ "Högfjällshotellet i Storlien säljs". Östersunds-Posten (in Swedish). 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2013-07-28.
- ^ Dyhlén, Gunnar (1924). På skidor 1925 (in Swedish). Helsingborg: Skidfrämjandet. pp. 115ff.
- ^ Dyhlén, Gunnar (1934). Svensk skidkalender 1935 (PDF) (in Swedish). Malmö: Skidfrämjandet. p. 116.
- ^ a b c Hallhagen, Erika (31 March 2013). "Hälsningar från fjällen". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish).
- ^ "Internationell slalom i Storlien" (PDF). Östersunds-Posten (in Swedish). 22 March 1935. p. 7.
- ^ "Slalomklubb bildad i Storlien" (PDF). Östersunds-Posten (in Swedish). 9 January 1935. p. 7.
- ^ Arbman, Hans; Nilsson, Pea (21 February 2009). "Ny storhetstid i Storlien blev bara en dröm". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish).
- ^ "Ny eier åpner ny butikk på Nabocash" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Adressa. 25 June 2014. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ^ "Onsdag åpner den nye grensehandelen" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Stjørdals-Nytt. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ^ "Precipitation normals 1961-1990 (Swedish)" (in Swedish). SMHI. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- SMHI. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ "Open Data for Storlien-Storvallen" (in Swedish). Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.
- ^ "Yearly & Monthly statistics" (in Swedish). Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. 24 May 2021.
