#1 June 22nd, 2005 05:29 AM

trebora

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Happy Midwinter

Happy midwinter to all of y'all

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Belgareth

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Re: Happy Midwinter

Happy midwinter to all of y'all

And from the Northern Hemisphere I bid you a Peaceful Summer Solstice.

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wantingscott

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Re: Happy Midwinter

trebora,
do you have 6 months of daylight/ 6 months of night?

scott

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trebora

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Re: Happy Midwinter

daylight I've heard of that i think...yeah lots o dark right now.  You get used to that.  Worst thing is during the summer when you come out of the bar at 1 am and the sun is shining in your face.  Its just not right.

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SCSIgirl

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Re: Happy Midwinter

And from the Northern Hemisphere I bid you a Peaceful Summer Solstice.

Beware of Druids wishing you any solstice greeting.........

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SCSIgirl

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Re: Happy Midwinter

trebora,
do you have 6 months of daylight/ 6 months of night?

scott

That's the Equinox, silly.  This is his longest night of the year.

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SCSIgirl

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Re: Happy Midwinter

Happy midwinter to all of y'all

In honor of your Solstice,  I'll go down and watch girls run around topless on the beach for ya....    ;-}

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Belgareth

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Re: Happy Midwinter

Beware of Druids wishing you any solstice greeting.........

If by Druid you mean someone who believes in Gaia, the sybiosis of all things living and the natural magic of nature, then 'tis I but does that make me scary? If you mean the Druids of myth who supposedly performed ritual sacrifice and all sorts of other misbegotten things then I am offended ;-)

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trebora

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Re: Happy Midwinter

That's the Equinox, silly.  This is his longest night of the year.

speaking of silly.

The equinox is supposed to be 12 hours of day, 12 hours of dark.

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SCSIgirl

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Re: Happy Midwinter

If by Druid you mean someone who believes in Gaia, the sybiosis of all things living and the natural magic of nature, then 'tis I but does that make me scary? If you mean the Druids of myth who supposedly performed ritual sacrifice and all sorts of other misbegotten things then I am offended ;-)

I was thinking more along the lines of lottsa naked people running around doing wanton sex in total hedonistic abandon....  Oh, wait a minute...  that's a typical rock concert.

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Belgareth

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Re: Happy Midwinter

I was thinking more along the lines of lottsa naked people running around doing wanton sex in total hedonistic abandon....  Oh, wait a minute...  that's a typical rock concert.

Oh, I thought that was ISM!

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voyeur2

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Re: Happy Midwinter

trebora,
do you have 6 months of daylight/ 6 months of night?

scott

If its anything like the Arctic, where I was on the edge of the Arctic Ocean.  In summer the sun goes around in circles in the sky and it gets pretty hot.  over 100 F or 40C.  at the equnoxes its 12 hours day, 12 night.

Winter for a period - no sun at all.  The farther north you go the longer the period of darkness.

The Antarctic is more extreme temperature wise in winter, less in summer?

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trebora

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Re: Happy Midwinter

At the poles the equinoxs are aproximately the first sun rise or last sunset.  It varies by a bit depending on how far south or north you are.  You can see a hint of light around 1 in the afternoon but we are still about 2 months from the first official sunrise.  As the days go on the will be more and more of that hint of sunrise lasting longer through the day.

The temps are usually around 30F giver or take a few degrees during the summer.  Winter here this year has been quite warm actually.  its usually around -20 to -30 F with some days colder than others.  A few weeks ago it got all the way up to 19 F though.  That was a nice day.

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voyeur2

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Re: Happy Midwinter

At the poles the equinoxs are aproximately the first sun rise or last sunset.  It varies by a bit depending on how far south or north you are.  You can see a hint of light around 1 in the afternoon but we are still about 2 months from the first official sunrise.  As the days go on the will be more and more of that hint of sunrise lasting longer through the day.

The temps are usually around 30F giver or take a few degrees during the summer.  Winter here this year has been quite warm actually.  its usually around -20 to -30 F with some days colder than others.  A few weeks ago it got all the way up to 19 F though.  That was a nice day.

Oh yeah.  Antarctica bases are fairly far north of the pole.  In Canada you  dont see many settlements much north of the arctic circle (about 60 degrees north, the line where total night for 1 day a year occurs.  Although it is more like a very long twilight followed by a very long dawn with no actual sun.  The farthest north settlement is named with an Innuit word that translates roughly as "Its dark up there"  Winter temps - wind chill factors extra - are in the -35 to -60 depending on where and how north you are.
True story:
I was at the store (the only one in town) and saw a notice on the notice board.  This was in February.  "If the temperature falls below -35, the family picnic will be postponed."
Schools closed at -40 because it was too cold for the first graders to walk from the edge of town.

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