Something is seriously wrong...the sun is setting at 7 30 -8 pm

[yellowdingo]

I mean really - maybe its because this time of the year the sky is usually pitch black with monsoon, but without rain and clouds the sun is going down between 7-8 pm... and here is the hint of a sunrise at 6 14 am in Darwin!!!

[Lilith]

Happy summer! :D

[yellowdingo]

Lilith wrote:

Happy summer! :D

Summer? Summer? No way. Not having any of that...Its Wet Season or Dry Season! Must be Abnormal Solar Activity causing massive solar radiation spillage into the evenings and mornings. The end is nigh!

[Raechel a'Nalvaar]

It is! Isn't it wonderful?

[thejeff]

yellowdingo wrote:

Lilith wrote:

Happy summer! :D

Summer? Summer? No way. Not having any of that...Its Wet Season or Dry Season! Must be Abnormal Solar Activity causing massive solar radiation spillage into the evenings and mornings. The end is nigh!

That does all send very strange and threatening, but I'm sure the Sun is just a little confused. Perhaps you could mention to her that we miss her up north and would love it if she could spend a little more time with us?

[Pendagast]

sun set is at 5 pm here, sun rise is around 10 am

[Orthos]

Dingo's in Australia. It's the long-day part of the year for him. Theoretically anyway ;)

[Sissyl]

Oh... let me tell you about swedish days recently:

You wake up from the alarm clock, and IT IS STILL COMPLETELY DARK at 7 AM. So you put on all the clothes you have to put on, and make your way to work. On the way there, you seriously get to consider whether you need to take warm stops in the local convenience store BECAUSE YOUR TOES MIGHT BE GETTING DAMAGED BY THE COLD. So you bless the warmth at work, until it is time to go for lunch. Then things are bleak but rather okay and not so cold. So back to work, and when it is time to go home, you find that you're not really sure you want to. It has gotten cold again.

Bleh. Double ackpht blarg. They have been whining about global warming for years and years... and every winter gets worse. I demand global warming NOW or their heads on spikes.

[Alu'Vien Darkstar]

Sissyl wrote:

They have been whining about global warming for years and years... and every winter gets worse. I demand global warming NOW or their heads on spikes.

Nay. Let Fimbulwinter come.

[HangarFlying]

The ironic result of Global Warming is an ice age.

[bugleyman]

HangarFlying wrote:

The ironic result of Global Warming is an ice age.

Hence switching to "climate change." Sadly, nuance doesn't poll well.

[Catprog]

Sissyl wrote:

Oh... let me tell you about swedish days recently:

You wake up from the alarm clock, and IT IS STILL COMPLETELY DARK at 7 AM. So you put on all the clothes you have to put on, and make your way to work. On the way there, you seriously get to consider whether you need to take warm stops in the local convenience store BECAUSE YOUR TOES MIGHT BE GETTING DAMAGED BY THE COLD. So you bless the warmth at work, until it is time to go for lunch. Then things are bleak but rather okay and not so cold. So back to work, and when it is time to go home, you find that you're not really sure you want to. It has gotten cold again.

Bleh. Double ackpht blarg. They have been whining about global warming for years and years... and every winter gets worse. I demand global warming NOW or their heads on spikes.

Doesn't global warming do something with the jet stream that means the cold arctic wind gets to Sweden?

[The 8th Dwarf]

7:40pm in Sydney I am still at work the sun has not set probably wont for another 40 mins or so.

Have been helping some of our offshore guys in India... It's just past lunch for them, I am posting on a board hosted in the US an talking to people in Sweden it an amazing world we live in.

Time to go home... I want dinner.

[Sissyl]

These last few summers it's been due to El Nino, La Nina, the North Atlantic Oscillation, the stopping of the Gulf Stream, and now finally the Jet Stream. I wonder what is next.

[yellowdingo]

Technowizard yellowdingo pops outside and holds up his weather control device dials in a descent monsoon rain for tomorrow...dials in a snow day for northern hemisphere. ;P

[Orthos]

I think that's the same brand of weather dominator Freehold uses.

[yellowdingo]

Orthos wrote:

I think that's the same brand of weather dominator Freehold uses.

Who-hoo! Weather Control Face-off!!

[Celestial Healer]

I agree that the Sun must be confused. It's been spending so much effort over the eons producing energy that it can be forgiven for some momentary confusion. Yellowdingo, perhaps you could interest the Sun in some power-generating turbines.

[Babe: Pig on the Internet]

Yel'El (aka Yellowdingo), as one of Australia's foremost superheroes, derives his abilities from his body's conversion of yellow spectrum sunlight into energy, so it's only natural he would be concerned about it.

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[Celestial Healer]

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