Merry Christmas to you all in blogland!
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Friday, December 21, 2007
The shortest day...
...and the longest night is tomorrow December 22. At this time of the year we have only about 5 hours of something one could call daylight here at 63 degrees North.
It is really some few hours of dawn transmogrifying into some few hours of dusk.
In between there is 19 hours of darkness.
There is a webcam out at the Replot Bridge about 10 miles northwest from Vaasa and there you can see how dark it really gets here.
Replot Bridge WebCam
Well today it is a beautiful day and the sun is shining though it is moving so low behind the trees from my point of sight so I cannot really see it from here where I sit.
If you are watching this webcam you may wonder where is the snow and the ice?
Yes, so do we. This is another exceptional year when there is no snow and ice around. No hope for a White Christmas this year.
There were two occasions when this have happened before, in 1972 and 1992. Please observe that these are the only occasions in modern history here and now a third one in less than 40 years.
Something about the climate is changing very rapidly now.
Anyway, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year out there in blogland!
It is really some few hours of dawn transmogrifying into some few hours of dusk.
In between there is 19 hours of darkness.
There is a webcam out at the Replot Bridge about 10 miles northwest from Vaasa and there you can see how dark it really gets here.
Replot Bridge WebCam
Well today it is a beautiful day and the sun is shining though it is moving so low behind the trees from my point of sight so I cannot really see it from here where I sit.
If you are watching this webcam you may wonder where is the snow and the ice?
Yes, so do we. This is another exceptional year when there is no snow and ice around. No hope for a White Christmas this year.
There were two occasions when this have happened before, in 1972 and 1992. Please observe that these are the only occasions in modern history here and now a third one in less than 40 years.
Something about the climate is changing very rapidly now.
Anyway, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year out there in blogland!
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