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Yay! Sommar solstice!

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Uppgång
Soluppgång kl. 04:19
1 minuter tidigare än förra veckan

Nedgång
Solnedgång kl. 22:00
3 minuter senare än förra veckan

Although, the sun barely sets and the sky in one direction stays blue and purple all night. And it is light enough to read a little over 3.

Friday is our midsommar afton where a bit of partying happens and then saturday we have nice food.
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I övermorgon i Södra Finland: uppgång 03:53, nedgång 23:13. Vi behöver mera svensk-, norsk- eller finsktalare här att förstå det allt. :P
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Happy Midsummer, you guys. 8)

(We need those sunglasses here in DC today! It's 97 degrees out there now. That's 36 for you people on the C scale.)

I should be doing something to celebrate Litha, but it's too damn hot! :lol: I did buy a watermelon. Maybe I'll make hamburgers for dinner. And stop and pick up some potato salad. Mmmm, potato salad...
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So it's official: 6 months left until doom arrives. Cheers! :letsparty:
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Uh, actually it's the winter solstice. :D

Sunrise: 06h54

Sunset: 17h24

Shortest day of the year. :D

Finally we're starting the slow fall toward summer.

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What kind of 'shortest day' is that? We have only about 5 hours of daylight then, that's over 10h! ;) :lol: I'm more and more convinced it's summer there year round.

Happy mids(u/o)mm(e/a)r / juhannus / midwinter! :lol:
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damn foreigners...

i ain't converting to metrics, you hear me!!!
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Winter is coming.
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dlbpharmd wrote:Winter is coming.
Where did that "like" button go? ;)
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Frostheart wrote:What kind of 'shortest day' is that? We have only about 5 hours of daylight then, that's over 10h! ;) :lol: I'm more and more convinced it's summer there year round.
What? Today's max is forecast 12°C. That's freezing.

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:lol: :lol: Twas max +13C here the day before. Usually gets warmer in July.
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It is 14 here now. See, all variations of summertime all over the world.
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it is somewhere in the 80's here in Texas. we are under a hurricane watch, no idea if it will happen or not.

we just ignore it until it actually appears in the gulf.
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Ron Burgunihilo wrote:So it's official: 6 months left until doom arrives. Cheers! :letsparty:
Are you referring to the end of the Mayan Calendar and all that? I'm ready. :)

Midsummer always makes me feel bittersweet. It is the pinnacle of loveliness and light, and it's downhill from here (although it's a beautiful ride).

Where I am we only get about 14 hours daylight in summer, 10 in winter (with a long twilight)-- not a big change. But this is the midst of rainy season so it's rather like summer in the US because this is the green time of year.
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It rained this midsummer which made dancing around the maypole colder and wetter than usual. The frogs liked it, though.
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it was 100 degrees each day of school in Huntsville this week.
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sgt.null wrote:it was 100 degrees each day of school in Huntsville this week.
Does that mean your teacher was hot?
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only one. the lady who talked of the greening of tdcj.
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Ron Burgunihilo wrote:So it's official: 6 months left until doom arrives. Cheers! :letsparty:
I hope it's a good doom this time. There were lots of complaints about the last one.
Friday is our midsommar afton where a bit of partying happens and then saturday we have nice food.
Going by this, today was maybe midsummer? (though maybe not in the US, maybe here July 4th is midsummer or something) I am just going to assume that today was midsummer instead of using google to find out stuff.

I spent my midsummer appropriately - me and 4 friends were at Dorney Park, an amusement park, and spent the early day baking and sweating in the heat and the later day doing water rides. Since I didn't have sandals for the water park and I went barefoot, my feet COOKED and blistered on the hot pavement and are now a nice brown color in the low parts (it was the good kind of pain, well maybe not for my health but for my enjoyment).

I also went on the talon - normally I'm pretty much a little girl when it comes to heights and coasters and upside downs but I finally did a manly coaster and experienced unanticipated levels of g-force on my body as we zipped around at high speeds in different directions. The wiki article on the ride says the max G-force was 4.5, and I didn't black out (though there were also little kids on the ride who AFAICT did not black out) - someone smart tell me if that's a lot or not so I can figure out whether I can be an ace fighter pilot (or better yet a gundam pilot).
it was 100 degrees each day of school in Huntsville this week.
THere was an article in the times in the past couple days about some sort of dispute/debate/something about air conditioning and other cooling/hydration topics in Texas prisons. I didn't read the article in detail so I don't remember if Huntsville was mentioned. I hope you are keepin' cool!
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holsety - lots of old buildings in tdcj, retrofitting them should cost millions. so for now we will see no ac.
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