That time of the year

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That time of the year

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in the Northern Hemisphere.

Happy Midsummer Day (I say to myself in an more or less empty Lounge. :laugh: :hello: Paul. :grin: The excuse from this part of the world is the second biggest holiday of the year.)

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Midsummer's eve, yesterday, was traditional in all aspects, including some rain in many parts of the country.
(We could need some more rain later on, groundwater levels are low or very low in some parts.)

No comments about summer solstice the other day? It's indeed difficult to notice, :grin: could be just about any day this week. On the other hand, some of you in North America will probably notice the solar eclipse in August.
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Glad midsommar!
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Tack, Hans. :smile:

En fortsatt glad midsommar önskas dig.
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Yesterday was the first day of this year's season that we hit 100°F (~38°C).

We've had relatively moderate temperatures so far this year.
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I'm happy as long as it stays below 30-35, Bob, but it depends on where, climate etc. (I've experienced 112°F and it wasn't fun.) Guess I'm built for this part of the world. :laugh:

19.7°C (67.5°F) in Stockholm yesterday, top temp. in Sweden was 22.3°C (~72°F).
(38°C is record temp. for Sweden; 9 July 1933 & 29 June 1947. Coldest is -52,6°C, 2 February 1966.)

The warmest day in May this year, and the warmest so far I think, was 30.1°C. But it was quite warm a week ago as well, around 27-28°C.
(All this "degrees F" & "degrees C" reminds me about this. (And this; Fahrenheit has at least one advantage over C & K. :laugh:))

BTW, speaking of Midsummer, we need some more good Swedish music in this thread. :grin: Here's "Slängpolska efter Byss-Calle*" with Benny Andersson, yep, that Benny Andersson, and Orsa Spelmän & Gunnar Idenstam at the organ, "Orgel Acusticum".

And when BAO (Benny Andersson's Orchestra) are performing it. Great musicians, all of them.

*/ Byss-Calle, i.e. Carl Ersson Bössa, 1783-1847.
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-52,6°C :yikes: !!!!!!

I cannot even imaging how cold that is.

Our average temps this winter have been between 5°C and 14°C with the coldest morning (according to my cars temperature gauge) at 3°C.
The week ahead seems to continue to reflect these averages....
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The coldest I've ever experienced was -7°C in the Cederberg Mountains (north of Cape Town) at a work and team building retreat.
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My coldest experience was 3 days when the highest temp was 0°F (-17.78°C) and the lowest was -10°(-23.33°C) in North Carolina in the mid '80s. My hottest experience was 127.4°F (53°C) in Madrid in 1991.
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Rudi wrote:I cannot even imaging how cold that is.
Neither can I, Rudi. I don't think we have been close to that for quite some time ... and anyhow it was measured far away northbound.

Southern Sweden has only seen temps below -35°C (around -38°C) two times during the last century, 1918 and 1942; I would guess that +5 to -20°C is the "normal" range in the winter (there is quite a range between temps in southern Sweden). Also in the middle of the country that, -35, would be considered very cold, but that part has seen -40 to -45°C, a couple of times. Normal range would probably be +5 to -25°C (in the winter). In the northern part it would be below zero, perhaps -10 to -35°C in the "normal" range. I haven't checked this.

My coldest experience would probably be somewhere between -25 and -30°C, I think.

Low temps for an average day in January
High temps for an average day in January

Anyhow, it's summer in the Northern hemisphere! And midsummer. :smile:
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BobH wrote:My coldest experience was 3 days when the highest temp was 0°F (-17.78°C) and the lowest was -10°(-23.33°C) in North Carolina in the mid '80s. [...]
The temps can certainly vary quite a bit within the USA (and within states).
(In the 80s I experienced 110+°F and 55-60°F (southern Minnesota & and the lake district in the north), in just some weeks.)
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Argus wrote:in the Northern Hemisphere....
Yeah. I hate this time of year.
The days are getting shorter.
The nights are getting longer.

I saw a great Punch (UK magazine) cartoon last week:
Two yuppies are walking along the street, one say to the other "You know that summer is coming when your Photochromic lenses stay darker longer"

Pick of Punch, 1982-1985 series.
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ChrisGreaves wrote:
Argus wrote:in the Northern Hemisphere....
Yeah. I hate this time of year.
The days are getting shorter.
The nights are getting longer.
Yes, annoying, isn't it.
We saw Spring Equinox not long ago in March, and now suddenly it is supposed to get darker, before the summer has started! :grin:
Lousy arrangement, if you ask me. :laugh:

In reality, though, in this part of the world the change is so slow it won't be noticed until late July, August, unless you clock the sunset every day (or check your photochromic lenses).
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Argus wrote:... and now suddenly it is supposed to get darker, before the summer has started! :grin: ...
And then I heard a show in which one brilliant nerd explained to a geek that "heat makes everything expand, grow longer and bigger. That's why days are longer in summer ...".

Luckily I can't remember where I heard it, so none of us has to relive the experience :flee:

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DZ>I thought you might be interested: last week I sent a postcard to Ann, and it arrived in about one week. I wonder why the difference between mail to the UK and mail to Canada?

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