During the 90s, southern Öland was one of the places that were included in SVT's sun league, but when SMHI removed its measuring station there, southern Öland disappeared from the competition.
So the sun hours flowing over southern Öland are no longer part of SVT's sunny, but sunny it is. On the roof of Ottenby's bird station is a solar meter mounted since a couple of years ago and that meter shows how much sun that Öland's southern cape received.
- This year we have had 14 more sun hours than the Swedish piles, says Magnus Hellström at Ottenby bird station.
Since 2016, the solar hours in Ottenby on southern Öland are measured again, after a break of several years, but they are no longer measured by SMHI. The measurements are now being taken in collaboration between Ottenby bird station and Mörbylånga municipality.
According to the measurements in Ottenby, they have had 632 hours of sun.
Can you trust your measurements then?
- SMHI had our solar meter in for winter calibration and it should work just as it should, says Magnus Hellström.
What does it mean to have many hours of sunshine?
- For us as a bird station, it is interesting to know these tasks, and for the municipality it is a way of marketing sunny Öland, says Magnus Hellström.
But some celebration of the unofficial sun hour record will not be at Otteby's bird station.
- No, we only post and note that information.