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Happy Summer Solstice...

#1 Postby streetsoldier » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:56 am

:thermo: :Partytime: :band: :thermo: :hoola: :sprinkler: :layout: :thermo:

Everything's downhill now... :yow:
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#2 Postby Brent » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:49 am

We're well on the way to 100. :x
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#3 Postby Stephanie » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:57 am

It's hard to believe that now the days get shorter. It doesn't seem right, does it???
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#4 Postby Miss Mary » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:19 pm

Actually, you're all gonna think I'm really odd but I like the shortest day of the year better. Gasp, I know - what a shock! I'm just not a summer person......when I'm out cutting grass and sweating, I tell my neighbors I'd rather be shoveling snow. They of course think I'm from Mars or something.....

So you think it's downhill......I think of it as uphill!

I should just move to Alaska huh?

Mary
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#5 Postby Brent » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:37 pm

Miss Mary wrote:I should just move to Alaska huh?


Alaska has longer days than us in the summer. :wink:

Anchorage today:

Sunrise: 4:20am
Sunset: 11:42pm

...and that's in Southern Alaska. In Barrow the sun doesn't set today. :eek:
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#6 Postby P.K. » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:45 pm

That is a little longer than here then. The north of the UK has about 80 minutes longer of daylight though than here at the moment.

Wednesday
Sunrise 04:42 (BST)
Sunset 21:21 (BST)

I also prefer the winter as I don't like hot weather, just wish we had some snow though when it does get cold.
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#7 Postby Stephanie » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:06 pm

I prefer sunny and around 80 degrees. Spring time weather is great. Summer I can deal with, but the humidity is what does me in!

I like the longer days and that's why I'm not much of a winter person, plus I like to work outside. However, if there's a good snowstorm brewin'.... :wink:
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#8 Postby coriolis » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:37 pm

About 15 hours of sunlight today at this latidude. I always wanted to move to the western part of a time zone to maximize the sunlight in the evenings. Maybe someplace like .............Cincinnati. LOOK OUT MARY!!!!
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#9 Postby tropicana » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:03 pm

Our sunrises/sunsets here in Toronto these days are:-
SUNRISE 5:36am SUNSET 9:04pm

These are about the earliest and latest times for the city of Toronto, it is a bit later sunsets to points west and north.

Even though sunsets at 9:04pm, civil twilight extends all the way to around 10:15pm or so...so thats pretty late...and civil dawn is like around 4:15am. But who is up at that time anyways?

-justin-
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#10 Postby Miss Mary » Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:40 pm

coriolis wrote:About 15 hours of sunlight today at this latidude. I always wanted to move to the western part of a time zone to maximize the sunlight in the evenings. Maybe someplace like .............Cincinnati. LOOK OUT MARY!!!!


Yikes!!!! Just kidding.....we'd warmly welcome you Ed......
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#11 Postby therock1811 » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:19 am

Sun didn't set until 9:08pm today. But then, we didn't see the sunset here thanks to the clouds after some storms hit. Tomorrow, the sun comes up at 6:14am, and we likely won't see that either.
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#12 Postby beachbum_al » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:43 am

I missed summer. :cry: I forgot all about it but was feeling the heat while helping my sister move in Florida. Whoa it was hot there...and here too.
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#13 Postby alicia-w » Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:35 pm

Brent wrote:
Miss Mary wrote:I should just move to Alaska huh?


Alaska has longer days than us in the summer. :wink:

Anchorage today:

Sunrise: 4:20am
Sunset: 11:42pm

...and that's in Southern Alaska. In Barrow the sun doesn't set today. :eek:


and it never eally gets dark at all in the summer, in Anchorage anyway. At 2 in the morning, there's still enough light to read....
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