Comments | scs_11: Summer Solstice

scs_11

Summer Solstice

Jun 21, 2009 02:42

It's solstice. In our neck of the north woods, that means sunrise at 5:58 AM and sunset at 9:16 PM, or 15 hours and 18 minutes of daylight. When you count in the 'official' twilight hours, that mean 16.5 hours of useful light. Sometimes it's nice living this far north ( Read more... )

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madtechie2718 June 21 2009, 08:58:00 UTC

North?

Pah! Think again again, you southern softie! Sunrise was at 4:46am this morning and sunset is not due until 9:27pm

I won't be able to pelt anyone with snowballs on Dec 21, it'll be too dark....

archiver_tim June 21 2009, 15:33:25 UTC

Reminds me of my days up at Michigan Tech.

"It's 4 in the morning
and once more the dawning
has brought out the yearning
in me" - country song from that spring/summer

Everything is relative, my son scs_11 June 21 2009, 16:16:03 UTC

Ah, but you should remember that I moved here from near the Mexican border.

Re: Everything is relative, my son madtechie2718 June 21 2009, 21:03:35 UTC

Actually, I'm not sure where 'here' is...

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maiac June 21 2009, 12:30:02 UTC

Happy Father's Day!

Your post reminds me of my 1999 visit to Edinburgh. As my sister and I were preparing for bed about 11:00 p.m., I realized it was still twilight, not yet dark. No wonder the city has such beautiful flower gardens. Plenty of rain and almost 20 hours of daylight, three weeks after the Solstice.

kaarlo June 22 2009, 02:59:24 UTC

ofcourse, here in Finland, sun never setted on friday night, it's sun through the whole night, usually also results in beer through the whole night. But it's worth it, it's beautiful to watch the sun almost setting and coming up the moment after. Unfortunately this year it was raining through the whole night

scs_11 June 22 2009, 05:55:50 UTC

Sigh. It's on my list of things to see.