Or as we call it - the "mørketid" - has finally come.
Today it was the last day of sunlight here in mid-Lapland: from tomorrow
until mid-february the sun will never rise up above the horizon, and days
will become progressively darker and darker until we get the minimum
sunlight exposure - some dim light will appear around 12:00 to disappear
again around 14:30 pm.
It's the time of northern lights, of pannekaker, christmas beer,
fucking snow and ice for months, skin sensibility for lack of vitamins,
sleepness and electricity consumption.
Luckily there's been a warm spell and the ice melted 2 days ago, but
it's already snowing again so fuck it. Here's the amount of
daylight we had today at midday:
I took it just for b0g, cuz you're worth it.
Related sex pic:
posted by sisteskrik on Thursday 24th November 2005, 18:04:48
wows, you lives in ... somewhere up there? tell me.. what is it like living
in total (fucking) darkness for weeks/months?? aren't you getting
kinda depressed?? i heared ppl. are drinking a lot more alcohol during that
time :D
tell us more.. with pix!!
Well, yes I live 600 km north of the polar circle, this means 3 months
and a half of no sun - it's not completely dark, we have somewhat
a blink of twilight during the midday (12:00 pm - 1:00 pm). Of course
in summer we've got the damn midnight sun from mid-may to early
august, and it sux WAY more than the polar night because it
doesn't help you sleep and you are hyperactive for most of the
day. Having the sun shining up at 1:00 am is obnoxious even if
we're used to it.
Oddly enough, during the endless winter darkness the brightest days
are the ones when it's overcast and it's snowing - because
the city lights reflect on the falling snow and the sky is lit - often
orange or pink.
http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/uploads/journals/morke1.jpg
(this is mid-winter last year, the days when it snows hard and the
days are usually bright because of the city lights reflecting on
snowflakes and low clouds)
if it doesn't snow, usually it's darker, like this
http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/uploads/journals/morke2.jpg
Mørketid is cool because the sun doesn't bother when you drive,
and even if you go to the pubs and leave at, say, TEN in the morning,
it's still night so you have the feeling that the night
isn't over yet. There are northern lights from september to april
usually but they tend to get boring once you get used to them.
Another probably weird thing is that in wintertime our streets are
made of ice instead of asphalt - because it costs less to press the
snow in place rather to plow it away. So we have to drive with nailed
tires or winter tires.
http://www.b0g.org/wsnm/uploads/journals/morke3.jpg
like this. As far as I know, it only happens in lapland.
Well, yes I live 600 km north of the polar circle, this means 3
months and a half of no sun - it's not completely dark, we
have somewhat a blink of twilight during the midday (12:00 pm -
1:00 pm). Of course in summer we've got the damn midnight
sun from mid-may to early august, and it sux WAY more than the
polar night because it doesn't help you sleep and you are
hyperactive for most of the day. Having the sun shining up at
1:00 am is obnoxious even if we're used to it.
Oddly enough, during the endless winter darkness the brightest
days are the ones when it's overcast and it's snowing -
because the city lights reflect on the falling snow and the sky
is lit - often orange or pink.
http:/
/www.b0g.org/wsnm/uploads/journals/morke1.jpg
(this is mid-winter last year, the days when it snows hard and
the days are usually bright because of the city lights reflecting
on snowflakes and low clouds)
Mørketid is cool because the sun doesn't bother when you
drive, and even if you go to the pubs and leave at, say, TEN in
the morning, it's still night so you have the feeling that
the night isn't over yet. There are northern lights from
september to april usually but they tend to get boring once you
get used to them.
Another probably weird thing is that in wintertime our streets
are made of ice instead of asphalt - because it costs less to
press the snow in place rather to plow it away. So we have to
drive with nailed tires or winter tires.
very interesting!! the first pic looks kewl :D~ i can't
imagine how to live in almost total darkness for 3months..
nor can i imagine a sunny day that last's about
20hours.. anyways i wanna go visit this rough place someday,
just to know how it is.. that's why i am asking like a
3y old..
btw. how is it possible to make streets out of ice? i mean,
what if the snow keeps falling and falling? wouldn't
the streets become higher than the buildings one day?
uh! and what means morke? tid = time, right?
huuu! haaa!! huiiii!!
not bad you must be farther north than we are, we still get sunlight but
sunset is at 4pm (1600 for you) and sunrise is at like 10am, but in Barrow
they have been in darkness since October 23rd and will stay in darkness
till March 23rd
we just got 2 feet of snow here, so be glad you dont have to shovel
Huh. Well the town is called Tromsø, it's easy to find it on the
norwegian maps as it's one of the most important towns of Norway.
The sun *never* sets from mid-may to early august, it's always up in
the sky, circling around like a crazy dog, while in winter it *never* rises
- there's just some twilight around midday.
About the streets, there are special snow ploughs that plow some of the
newest snow away and the rest is being pressed hard onto the ground, very
hard, to create a rock-like ice bottom. Streets can become very thick, but
never too thick.
yeah and mørk = dark, tid = time. Pretty self-explanatory :P
And yes I feel luck not to have to showel in this period of time, even
though I know we'll have to pay it dear til june :/
The Time of Darkness has come
