James Ball @jamesrball.com · Jul 10 Obviously you know before you come here that in July, the sun is up 24 hours a day. But knowing about midnight sun in theory and seeing it – okay, technically 23:30 sun – is quite different. It's uncanny.
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It's weird isn't it? I kind of assumed it would get slightly dimmer, a bit like the light at dawn but no, absolutely full daylight all the time.
I’ve long harbored an entirely baseless fantasy of living for a year somewhere where the sun never rises, in winter, and doesn’t set in summer. I guess this kinda confirms my wife’s oft stated claim that I’m quite an extreme personality. Enjoy.
I grew up in Scotland and have never got over nearly-this (essentially dusk at 11pm and dawn at somewhere around 3am). Even in Liverpool atm it's like 10pm/4am and doesn't really hit night, it's more like a dusk for the 6 hours of "not light"
In 1994 I was in Stavanger for a meeting the day Norway played Italy in tbe last US WC. Hotel bar was full of very stolid Norse oilies wearing helmets with horns on, and reacting to their 1-0 defeat phlegmatically.
It sure is! This was taken at bang on midnight while sailing around Nordkapp. I really want to go back.
I more or less experienced this one June in Shetland. The sun didn’t rise in the east and set in the west. It kind of circumnavigated the horizon and the dipped below the horizon briefly to create a slight twilight effect. Awesome.
How's this for a victory for globalisation? I'm in the arctic circle and the wool is from...New Zealand.
Having just got home from Arctic Norway: what disturbed me is not so much that it's light all the time, but that the sun is a dangerous foe because it can come at you from any angle.
I visited Tampere in July a few years ago- very disorienting!