Talk:Stord

Climate

"The climate on Stord is rainy, but ther can also be a lot of sun sometimes too. At wintertime there is rarely mutch snow, and the temperature is around 0°C (about 30°F). At sumertime the temperature is between 20°C to 40°C."

The last sentence seems wrong to me. Having lived in Stord for more than 20 years, I have experienced 40°C maybe 1 or 2 times, and less than 10°C in summer many times. Is it possible to find official statistics that we can link to, or should the sentence be removed? Ahy1 12:57, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

As noone has come up with real climate data, I have removed the text. Ahy1 16:20, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Link to Stordøya.

"In addition to the southern part of the Stord island, the municipality includes the islands of Huglo, Stordøya og Føyno." I don't really see the point in this link, and i suggest we remove it. CrazyChip 22:03, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. These articles could (and probably should) be created, and these red links offer an incentive to do so. __meco 08:09, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Oky, i can agree to that(after browsing thru some link guidelines, etc..) but i still think the name is confusing. Being norwgian i can understand that the name "Stordøya" means Stord island, but it's not actually called "Stordøya". Wouldn't it be better to link this to "Stord (island)" insted of a loosly used norwegian term for the island.? CrazyChip 10:28, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps. There are still quite a few paradoxes with regards to Norwegian place names around. __meco 10:40, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Biggest Nynorsk city?

I am wondering if there are any reliable sources that can confirm this; it could be an interesting addition to the article. The "biggest Nynorsk city in the world" is at least something the city itself claims to be.^[1]. There are municipalities like Fjell just outside Bergen that have a greater population than Stord; but Fjell does not have city status, and a lot of the pupils in Fjell do not have Nynorsk as their preferred language form^[2], contrary to Stord. --Harald Khan Ճ 10:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Urban municipality/city municipality

Stord municipality also has status as a city by the municipality council after the Norwegian law for cities was changed in 1996 I think it was, meaning municipalities with more than 5000 people and a central urban area could legally call itself a city. Although Leirvik is the defined "town" on Stord, the council quite controversily named the whole municipality a city, meaning it has status as a urban municopality/city municipality (not sure about the English definition there, in Norwegian it's bykommune). Shouldn't this be pointed out somewhere in the article? Per Norwegian definition the whole municipality is then a city, and that's how it's seen in norway now (Newspapers and weather forecast sites and so on), with leirvik as the centre of the city. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alundy95 (talk • contribs) 20:21, 21 November 2017 (UTC)