Long Daylight Hours…
Today is the longest daylight hours of the year…
At the 45th north parallel there is almost 16 hours of daylight…
It’s (Daylight Hours) get longer, the farther north you you go.
Anyway, it’s all downhill from here… Six months-or-so till Christmas…
Bill…
Eyup!
Up here at 54 degrees north we get a little over 18 hours.
Interestingly (?) according to the Met Office, Monday is the longest day here.
Sunrise 04:33 sunset 21:40 BST
Now if only all that daylight were sunshine and not grey drizzle 
Steve
Well…down here near the equator, it doesn’t make much difference. Maximum 1 hour difference in daylight between Summer and what we laughingly call winter!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice_Cyclists
We try to make the best of it out here, but sometimes it gets the best of us. 
Hi Beefy Steve:
The local radio newscast brought up the official time as 8:59pm last evening…
OR…
there-abouts…
Isn’t that strainge…
Normally, TomS posts the event…
He must be busy…
or…
something…
Then on another newscast, the report was that tis weekend was the first weekend of summer…
I always thought of the event as being around the 20th-the-21st…
OR…
even as late as the 22nd… The 18th is somewhat early.
Is it correct 
?
If you live near the equator the time goes faster…
AND…
You grow taller… ?
Bill…
[EDIT]
Usually, this time of year the nights are Damp-and-Foggy…
The days start out like that till the sun burns off the fog and then the days are humid…
If you don’t keep the furnace running, you have a damp house.
Eventually, we’ll get two weeks of summer…
I think you’re somewhat north of Vancouver…
I believe, the west coast area is reporting a cold start to summer…
Well below average temperatures…
phoo is out there somewhere…
Quote: (woxnerw @ Jun. 21 2008, 8:39 PM)
Is it correct
? If you live near the equator the time goes faster..
AND..
You grow taller..
?Bill..
Hmmm....how come I'm still only 5'5"
Actually, I used to live on the North coast of Scotland. I kinda miss those nights when it was still light at 10.30pm.
Maybe, gravity is denser at the equator…
It keeps everybody closer to the ground…
Then again, with the speed of rotation there’s no time to grow tall…
SORRY…
phoo is south of Vancouver…
But…
I hear that the west coast area is much below normal with their temperature…
I know they had some pretty high winds along that coast earlier in the spring…
AND lots of rain…
Must be Global Warming…
and all…
Bill…
Quote:
Is it correct ?
If you live near the equator the time goes faster..
AND..
You grow taller.. ?
Yes, both these things are true.
The growing taller thingy is nothing to do with gravity, well, not directly anyway. Local gravity varies all over the surface of the Earth, but it's the centrifugal force of the spinning Earth (which is at its maximum at the Equator) that does the trick.
This can be seen by observing that inhabitants of equatorial regions have highly elongated toes to enable them to hang on to this dear old planet of ours.
So much so, that on those days when the Earth spins fastest (public holidays usually), one can garner much entertainment by watching forgetful drunks come out of the pubs, and thence being whisked up into the heavens with very surprised looks on their faces.
And for the same reasons, (in line with Einsteins General Relativity), the faster time thingy is also true.
As we all know, days (and nights) in the polar regions are six months long. Wet Sundays in Glasgow are about three months long (at least
), but in the warmer climes, a day lasts about 16 hours, and Christmas comes every four weeks (this is why very few tropical foreigners bother to celebrate Christmas).Anyway, I hope this helps.
My kids (now in their late 20’s and early 30’s) grew up in Florida where summer is hot winter and winter is cool summer.
If not for Daylight Savings Time there wouldn’t be much difference.
They go back to my hometown up north in Iowa for a week during the summer (to jam and party with my old band guys) and they can’t believe how light the sky is at 10:30 at night.
Since we stay in a rural farmhouse far from the city lights, they’re also amazed at how many stars you can see on a clear night…“billions and billions” they like to say.
If not for the tough winters, I wouldn’t mind living “up there” again someday.
But, its just too cold and too dark for too long…anything below 70 degrees is a little chilly for me…
cliff
(my rating is only 4.33 - was it something i said?)
Hi g8torcliff:
NO…
I don’t think it’s That…
I tend to think it’s your elongated toes that is keeping you down on the “Member Rating List”.
Today, it’s beautiful here…
There’s an off-shore breeze…
from the north-west…
The air is so clean-and-clear… The humidity is down…
not humid…
The temperature is going to about 24c Let’s call it the mid-upper '70’s…
Any hotter than that would be too warm…
well, for me…
If you don’t watch it…
Today, you can burn pretty easy… that’s if you’re outside… You see we don’t get sun like this often…
Bill…
Bill…thats funny. In the summer I keep my air conditioner on 76…in the winter I keep my heat at 76… I spend most of my spare time outside whether its hot or cold…
Jim Morrison: “people are strange” just came to mind.
cliff
There’s not many of us up here with A/C in our homes. I keep my thermostat at 72F.
We do have Air in our cars…
In fact, I do…
The big topic that is being reported on the news this evening is, the cost of heating fuel for this coming winter heating season. Most homes use diesel like what is used in trucks, up-and-down the roads.
The governments taxes it somewhat differently,
but
not much…
Heating fuel sells today for 1.15 - 1.16 a litre… People in Europe and the UK are being hit at close to twice that rate for it…
Here…
If a trucker bought it for his truck he’d pay 1.58 -1.60 a litre for it… Consumer grade fuel has more than doubled in less than 12 months…
There appears to be no relief in sight…
Everything we use here comes to us by truck…
Toothpaste-to-paper towel to toilet paper.
Guess what?
It’s all going up… In the winter all our market garden vegetables comes to us from the west coast or Florida…
Bill…