Looking at the Svalbard webcams today, I noticed that the mountains were
silhouetted against the first faint glimmer of twilight at midday.
Otherwise, it's 24 hours of darkness.
I suppose that it is something that you get used to, but all the same, it
must be depressing to have to endure weeks of endless night.
Seeing that first promise of a return to daylight must be quite uplifting
for those who live there. Temperatures were up from around -22C to a rather
balmy -14C... it'll soon be time to dig out the tee-shirts!

Regards... David Allan.

On Jan 15, 5:10*pm, "David Allan" wrote:
Looking at the Svalbard webcams today, I noticed that the mountains were
silhouetted against the first faint glimmer of twilight at midday.
Otherwise, it's 24 hours of darkness.
I suppose that it is something that you get used to, but all the same, it
must be depressing to have to endure weeks of endless night.
Seeing that first promise of a return to daylight must be quite uplifting
for those who live there. Temperatures were up from around -22C to a rather
balmy -14C... it'll soon be time to dig out the tee-shirts!

Regards... David Allan.

I haven't been to Svalbard (yet!) but I've spent quite a few weeks in
northern Finland during January, about 250km north of the arctic
circle. Surprisingly there is much more ('grey'-) light than one would
expect. Also there are the northern lights and limitless stars to
endlessly fascinate. The snow acts as an effective mirror. There is
more natural light than one would expect. The sun did just about
struggle over the horizon for several hours each day and there were
wonderful pink and blue hues to the sky. I'm intending to upload some
photos to my web site.

Man in the Back Country

http://maninthebackcountry.weebly.com/

"Nick Gardner" wrote:

I used to share the lab with an Icelandic girl and she hated our winters.

I thought she might be missing the snow, or mountains or something like
that but when I asked her why she disliked our winters, she said that our
winters were a "pretence", because there was too much daylight!

I found Florida in February pretty strange - as warm as summer here in the
UK, but dark by teatime. It just wasn't right. Somebody ought to do
something.

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:34:05 -0000, Togless wrote:

I found Florida in February pretty strange - as warm as summer here in
the UK, but dark by teatime. It just wasn't right. Somebody ought to
do something.

I found being down near the equator for a month or so strange, it
gets light and dark at the same time every day and quickly, very
liitle twilight. That and the cresent moon being very "laid back".

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.

On 17/01/2011 09:43, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:34:05 -0000, Togless wrote:

I found Florida in February pretty strange - as warm as summer here in
the UK, but dark by teatime. It just wasn't right. Somebody ought to
do something.
I found being down near the equator for a month or so strange, it
gets light and dark at the same time every day and quickly, very
liitle twilight. That and the cresent moon being very "laid back".


On a holiday to Australia we did the sunset meal at Uluru. The sun went
down and the big lump of sandstone went through its rapid repertoire of
colour changes. After the customary round of applause, I remember
cynically remarking to my Aussie companions "Call that a sunset? It's
blink and you miss it!".

Give me our glorious summer twilights with the light slowly fading and
time to savour the colours. The sweet odours of summer and the
beautiful New Forest scenery around. Especially pleasant if the scenery
is our cricket ground on which I have just enjoyed a few hours of pleasure.

Only three or four months to wait, now...

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