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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 02:05 AM UTC
.. and the sun has just disappeared. Still some sunlight on the highest buildings.
Now we enter the long dark hours stretching from dusk till dawn ...
59° 19′ 46″ N and winter is coming, approximately the same latitude as Fond-du-Lac in Canada ...

We used to have a summerhouse at 59.794254, 12.606806

The summers are nice though

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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 02:25 AM UTC
I thought you were gonna bust out in song a la Chicago.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 04:07 AM UTC
Well, at 47.40 were just a bit south of you, but I feel you on the getting dark too soon. I go to work in the dark and go home in the dark. Too little sunshine in Seattle.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 04:17 AM UTC

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I thought you were gonna bust out in song a la Chicago.


Me?? Sing?? I think there is a paragraph about that in the Geneva convention ....
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 04:45 AM UTC

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I thought you were gonna bust out in song a la Chicago.


Me?? Sing?? I think there is a paragraph about that in the Geneva convention ....


Yeah I've been accused of using WMD's, weapons of mass distortion.

When people ask me why the stereos I put in all my vehicles are so loud my niece says it's to drown out my singing.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 10:54 AM UTC
Well Robin, it's nearly 3PM here in Seattle and there's no hint of sun in the sky. The sun may not have set, but we've got horizon to horizon cloud cover to hide it.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 10:57 AM UTC

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Well Robin, it's nearly 3PM here in Seattle and there's no hint of sun in the sky. The sun may not have set, but we've got horizon to horizon cloud cover to hide it.


Isn't that the standard weather for Seattle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8prkI3dezgQ
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 11:02 AM UTC
Well, only for around 300 days per year. I did see some sunlight through the clouds a couple of hours ago. Couldn't see my computer for all the glare.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 11:16 AM UTC

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Well, at 47.40 were just a bit south of you, but I feel you on the getting dark too soon. I go to work in the dark and go home in the dark. Too little sunshine in Seattle.


I worked 6 months at that latitude many years ago.
It was in Oerlikon, a few kilometres north of Zürich.
It felt strange that it was in the middle of the summer and got dark around 7 in the evening. In Stockholm we have full daylight until nine thirty (sun is up).

I checked the distance in miles between 59.19 and 47.40 north and it comes to a few yards short of 814 miles.
Moving the same latitude difference south from Seattle gets you to the latitude of Paso Robles Golf Club halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles
https://goo.gl/maps/wWFnqfqdSYL2

I think it rains less down there than in Seattle, in case you're interested
/ Robin
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 12:38 PM UTC
Average annual rainfall
Seattle 39"
Atlanta 50"
Miami 62"
Los Angeles 15"
On the other hand....
Ketchikan Alaska 160" Yes, that's 4 meters.

It just takes us 300 days to get that 39"
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 01:51 PM UTC
I did two tours at Ft Lewis, south of Seattle and the motto is "if it ain't rainin' it ain't trainin'. I also have lived north west of Seattle off and on for 40+ years. If you wait for a sunny day to get any work done, nothing will ever get done. Just don't try to use an electric lawnmower in the rain. Gas yes, but not an electric. I watched this current rain storm coming in across the Olympic Mountains this evening before it got dark.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 02:44 PM UTC
Here in Queensland Australia.

Sunrise at 4.44 am and sunset will be 6.36 Pm

At 3.00 pm it will be 33c (91F), cooling down after the peak of 36c (97F) and 29% humidity. Wind gusting at 37kph (23 mph) ( a bit gustier than usual)…… so not as hot as usual

… and it is not even summer here yet.





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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 04:09 PM UTC

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Here in Queensland Australia.

Sunrise at 4.44 am and sunset will be 6.36 Pm

At 3.00 pm it will be 33c (91F), cooling down after the peak of 36c (97F) and 29% humidity. Wind gusting at 37kph (23 mph) ( a bit gustier than usual)…… so not as hot as usual

… and it is not even summer here yet.







But Peter breaks or his long johns when the mercury falls below 9 degrees Celsius... A cold morning here during our winter. But not to worry, by noon on that same cold day it'll be 20 Celsius... That's 70 Fahrenheit

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Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 07:58 PM UTC

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But Peter breaks or his long johns when the mercury falls below 9 degrees Celsius...

Gaz


Thermals Gaz, thermals not Long Johns. Well it gets bl***y cold riding the bicycle that 30kms to work in the mornings..
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