Althouse: The long day.

June 21, 2023

The long day.

Daylight hours on the Summer Solstice. 😎 pic.twitter.com/ih3j6EZYOe
— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) June 20, 2023

18 comments:

planetgeo said...: Depends on your perspective. In Australia, it's "The long night", mate. You're looking at the sunny side of life at the moment. Keep it up.; 6/21/23, 8:08 AM
Original Mike said...: No soup for you, stargazers.; 6/21/23, 8:19 AM
tim in vermont said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/21/23, 8:30 AM
Yancey Ward said...: Just realize it all averages out over the course of a year- 12 hours of daylight/day.; 6/21/23, 9:09 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "Depends on your perspective. In Australia, it's "The long night", mate"

I was curious, so I checked the latitude of Melbourne, the southernmost large Australian city, and was surprised that it isn't all that far south as I had supposed- 37 degrees south latitude, the equivalent north latitude would be the Kansas/Oklahoma border. Today in Melbourne, the day is still 10 hours long.; 6/21/23, 9:15 AM
Wilbur said...: After I moved to South Florida I remember being surprised that the summer days were shorter than in the Midwest where I used to live. I figured it out.; 6/21/23, 9:49 AM
Big Mike said...: Explains why summer cruises to Greenland, Iceland, and/or northern Scandinavia aren’t good for seeing the Northern Lights. Tough to see that eerie green glow without darkness.; 6/21/23, 10:12 AM
Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) said...: "Daylight" is not sunlight, but includes Civil Twilight, when the sun is less than 6 degrees below the horizon and normal outdoor activities are possible. When I lived at 61 N in Canada's Yukon we played a 24-hr softball game for the Solstice, and the score was something like 324 to 257 after the requisite **90** innings, but there were enough adult beverages involved that nobody cared. And between at-bats there were a number of babies conceived off in the grass and moss under the surrounding spruce trees.; 6/21/23, 10:25 AM
Shannon said...: I intended to be in OH viewing the setting solstice sun at Serpent Mount this evening, but per Graham Hancock's latest tome, the mature trees block the entire event so the day of a visit isn't crucial to me. Saves 10+ hours of driving to the mound and back; I'll instead toast the sunset from my front yard.; 6/21/23, 11:06 AM
Shannon said...: Serpent MounD, I meant; 6/21/23, 11:07 AM
tim maguire said...: Must be sunrise to sunset b/c where I live, it gets light b/f 5 and stays light to about 9:30–but we’re not as far north as that map says we should be.; 6/21/23, 11:07 AM
gilbar said...: https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/attractive-women-more-likely-right-wing-left-wing-women-contempt

a study that revealed over half of white, liberal women under 30 have a mental health disorder. These findings were backed by more recent data that showed that liberal women are statistically the unhappiest and most mentally ill demographic in America.
“Controlling for socioeconomic status, we found that more attractive individuals are more likely to report higher levels of political efficacy, identify as conservative and identify as Republican.”

Liberal Women saddest, most dog faced.. Igna, Vicky, hardest hit; 6/21/23, 11:09 AM
Amexpat said...: It's great here now in Oslo. Only down side is that from tomorrow the days will start getting shorter. Luckily, I won't notice that until August.; 6/21/23, 11:37 AM
Clyde said...: At the other end of the scale is Quito, Ecuador, where they have 12 hours and six minutes of daylight today. Every day Is pretty much the same there.; 6/21/23, 2:41 PM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: Sixteen hours of daylight today, almost 17 1/2 hours from civil dawn to civil twilight.; 6/21/23, 3:33 PM
madAsHell said...: "The long day"

Have you ever been to Normandy??

Don't go there!! The long day, the longest day belongs to them!!!; 6/21/23, 4:41 PM
Mea Sententia said...: I find the solstice and equinox oddly comforting. I think it's because they are regular, measurable, fixed. So many other things are arbitrary or malleable. But here are things that simply are and do not change.; 6/21/23, 5:51 PM
Michelle Dulak Thomson said...: On our honeymoon (19 years ago -- gosh!), we were in Edinburgh, but took a train to Helensburgh, near Glasgow, to visit a musicologist friend and his wife. We got back after 10 p.m., bought some Chinese food, and went back to the hotel. And it was 10:25, and still daylight. Maybe "civil twilight," but the sky was not dark. Unbelievable. Until you looked up Edinburgh's latitude.; 6/21/23, 6:08 PM