[7] The industrial heritage makes social democrat and socialist sympathies more prevalent in the Sundsvall region than in Sweden as a whole.In 1888 on 25 June, strong wind and dry conditions contributed to two city fires in Sweden on the same day.[9] Sundsvall is also home to the unique festival Musikschlaget,[10] which is a song contest for groups around Sweden with disabilities.Sundsvall has a climate which is on the border between subarctic (Dfc) and cold humid continental (Dfb), leaning towards the latter in recent years.The weather station is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) to the north and somewhat further inland near Timrå, which renders that Sundsvall's urban centre is likely milder in terms of low temperatures by some degree.