I'm sure I've told you this already - I was in Trondheim one midsummer, and it was light enough to read all night. That's the highest latitude I've ever visited, north or south. (except for a couple of flights that passed over the Arctic, but I'm not counting those for sun-watching purposes)
Yep, it gets kind of dusk for a couple of hours and then it starts getting lighter again. It does get too dark to read if you're in a thickish forest, but not out in the open.
Try getting north of the Polar Circle around midsummer some time (or the south equivalent, of course). 24-hour sunshine is really freaky, much more so than one would think. I never knew how strong our biological clocks are until I had mine thrown utterly out of whack by five days without night. Very peculiar experience.
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Date: 2003-06-22 06:33 am (UTC)I'm sure I've told you this already - I was in Trondheim one midsummer, and it was light enough to read all night. That's the highest latitude I've ever visited, north or south.
(except for a couple of flights that passed over the Arctic, but I'm not counting those for sun-watching purposes)
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Date: 2003-06-22 06:42 am (UTC)Try getting north of the Polar Circle around midsummer some time (or the south equivalent, of course). 24-hour sunshine is really freaky, much more so than one would think. I never knew how strong our biological clocks are until I had mine thrown utterly out of whack by five days without night. Very peculiar experience.