Longest day of the year at 62' 50" North
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21 hours, 49 minutes of daylight … which is not to say it gets dark. It means the sun only spends 2 hours & 11 minutes below the horizon. Not far enough below the horizon to even think about getting dark. Makes for a hell of a non-stop sunset/sunrise.
It is also to say there is a reason I've only been getting five hours of sleep a night for the past few weeks, and yet I am still functioning. (although according to my ability to catch typos and perform basic mathematical calculations, I may not be functioning quite up to par. ;-)
[photo of solstice 2006 on full page...]
Midnight, June 21/22 2006—In my front yard.
Um, in the interests of possibly being a smart-arse, would not only 11 minutes below the horizon suggest a 23hr 49m day?
Or do you roof of the world folk have some shifty fast day? Like the arctic circle is actually a physical thing, where one side spins twice as fast as the other? … But that wouldn't work, since this is your longest day, and the arctic circle is where the longest day is 24 hours.
*ponders*
Ok, it's either a typo or voodoo.
22nd June 2008 at 12:38 am | permalink |@grimbles - I was kinda wondering that very thing:)
22nd June 2008 at 3:50 am | permalink |What, whether the arctic circle is a big slice on top of the planet that spins faster than the rest? *cough*
22nd June 2008 at 7:06 am | permalink |Blarg.
So, I copied the hours of daylight from what the guy on the radio said, typo'd it (I was typing on my phone) and then did my math looking at the typo, knowing the sun didn't go down for very long, and somehow twisting that into thinking "12 hour day" … I guess.
At any rate, that's the only way I can figure it happened. Unless radio guy *really* screwed up himself, and actually said "eleven hours" instead of 21 … that would be nice. hehehe
SO. The figures have been corrected. *ahem*
22nd June 2008 at 4:03 pm | permalink |I'm gonna be honest here….I thought it was wrong but I couldn't work out how it was wrong (being a temperate zone dweller) and I concluded it was just me not gettin the point, as is the case with most of your shit.
25th June 2008 at 6:58 am | permalink |Well, it's not so bad.
1st July 2008 at 12:29 pm | permalink |I know from me own life.
It's daytime all around, but get you're fucking windows some fucking blinds. he he…
elseshit it's fucking beautiful up there, in the arctic.
I love that picture. Although, the cloud looks like it's going to eat you. Eek. o.o
Whats the longest amount of nighttime you get?
1st July 2008 at 4:12 pm | permalink |@Gareth: hehehe … nope, definitely me not getting it this time.
@bill: Eh, after a few years up here, I don't even need blinds anymore.
@Aimee: We get ~3hrs. 42mins. of 'sun above the horizon' technical daylight on Winter solstice … so let's see if I can get the math right this time. ;-) That'd be 20hrs. 18mins. of night?
1st July 2008 at 4:32 pm | permalink |