Your post would have been a lot more enriching had you actually mentioned where it is you are living. There is a vague allusion to Aberdeen, but it is not conclusive. I don't mind quizzing over things for a short while, but you could be anywhere north of 55 degrees from your description, and that's a lot of real estate to be covered 8^ \
SK
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:04:56
Glenn Morton wrote:
>I am fascinated, living so far north, about the northern summers. It is
>9:38 pm and I am sitting in a north facing room which is about 10 feet long.
>I have direct sunlight shining through my north window and landing upon the
>south wall. (For those who don't understand ask yourself when the last time
>you had sunlight even coming through your north window, much less shinging
>on the south wall.) Having spent my life further south, the way the sun
>behaves up here, day by day gaining or losing 4 minutes of daylight per day
>(2 hours per month) is astounding to me. One can clearly understand from
>this the movement of the sun through the sky in a way that one never can
>appreciate further south.
>
>The downside, to me, is the fact that it never gets dark and that the birds
>sing until around 11 pm (they are still flying and carrying on) and start
>the morning raucus at 3 am, often waking me up. Wildlife seems to adapt to
>this, although I am not. Sleep is hard to come by even with blackout
>curtains because it is still light in the bedroom. A guy from Vienna
>visited my office today and he commented on how light it was at 3am. He was
>surprised and Vienna is at around 45 deg. N. Even the difference from London
>to Aberdeen is impressive. Sunset in London tonight was 9:20. Sunset, here,
>is at 10:06 almost an hour later. At 9:50 the flying insects seem to have
>disappeared even though it is still extremely light and the sun has not gone
>down yet. While I hear that people go crazy in the winter night north of the
>arctic circle, and I have seen a bit of depression in me and my wife in the
>winter, one can go a bit crazy in the summer for lack of sleep. How
>wildlife adapts, I don't know, but they do.
>
>500 miles north of here, in a week, the sun will not set at all. Even now,
>when I awake in the middle of the 'night', if I look out at the northern
>horizon at 1 am, the sky is light blue, looking like Dallas about 15 minutes
>after sunset. Only the very brightest stars, and only those to the south
>will appear in the sky tonight. Astronomy is prohibited in a land like this,
>at least summer astronomy.
>
>I am glad that in a few days, winter will be coming instead of going.
>Darkness brings sleep.
>
>glenn
>
>see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
>for lots of creation/evolution information
>anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
>personal stories of struggle
>
>
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