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Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:02 am
by dromia
We are a maritime island nation and as such we get maritime island weather, its called British weather here. Why we all hanker after mediteranean summers I don't know, on the odd occasion that we do get such a summer thats the aberration, not the type weather we are getting now which is our natural British summer weather.
The weather is just weather, nothing I can do about it and if I want an accurate forecast I look out the window.
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:15 am
by dodgyrog
dodgyrog wrote:It's all downhill from now! 1/2 way to Xmas.
No more bonfires, thanks.
No apology necessary!
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:41 pm
by bobbob
My parents 53rd wedding anniversary, such a shame dad passed away a week after their 45th. :|
Happy Solstice to any Pagans out there :)
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:57 pm
by Robin128
Yes...longest day!
:(
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:36 pm
by Polchraine
Robin128 wrote:Yes...longest day!
:(
Er, no. The longest day (in the UK) is the last Sunday in October.
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:11 pm
by Robin128
Agreed.
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 9:15 pm
by dromia
BST ends.
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:34 pm
by Robin128
25 hour day.
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:48 am
by Christel
Ok, 21st is the longest daylight hour day then.
Re: Summer Solstice
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:14 pm
by Polchraine
christel wrote:Ok, 21st is the longest daylight hour day then.
Not completely true! For anyone living between the equator and 66 deg 33 min N, that is correct. Above the Arctic circle they start to get 24 hours of sunlight for one or more days of the year with 183 days at the North Pole! Svalbard - the most northerly settlement in Europe has around 125 days! And South of the equator it is shifted by 1/2 year!