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[Kari]

Nice pics Dinesh . My warm greetings and New Year wishes to Kavita.

 

[Joan Archer]

Nice photo's Dinesh, love to Kavita.

Many congratulations Greg on being re-awarded MVP status, very well deserved.

Nice to see you back Arc you've been missed.

 

[Dinesh]

Whats with looking at your watch Dinesh? Time to go home?

Hahaha.. Not looking at the watch Colin
The restaurant manager was kind enough to issue me a "One day drink and drive license" so never worried about the time that night

Nice pics Dinesh . My warm greetings and New Year wishes to Kavita.

Thanks Kari Happy New Year to you too.

Nice photo's Dinesh, love to Kavita.

Thanks Joan

 

[Dinesh]

Congratulations Greg

 

[Kari]

More fantastic Northern Lights from region Lapland in Finland:

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Story behind the photo:

In Enontekiö, Lapland, the two police officers went to normal patrol on Boxing Day this Christmas in nice -32°C (-26°F) temperature. The cops stopped the standard issue Finnish police VW Transporter van (seen in picture) to get out for a moment, one of them saw the sky, picked his mobile phone and using a simple Android filter took the pic.

The story and the picture have been circulating Finnish media today when the cop published it in his Facebook wall.

Picture was taken on 26-DEC-2014 in here:

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[kado897]

It's beautiful Kari.

 

[Kari]

I really miss the real winter back home, instead of this half a year long fall / autumn here in Germany.

 

[z3r010]

I've only spent a few days inside the arctic circle at the top end of Finland in winter but I found it one of the most odd experiences of my life....such a lack of day light is just bizarre.

 

[kado897]

I couldn't be doing with the cold.

 

[z3r010]

With the right kit it's not too bad.

The reindeer stew is awesome

 

[Kari]

I've only spent a few days inside the arctic circle at the top end of Finland in winter but I found it one of the most odd experiences of my life....such a lack of day light is just bizarre.

You get used to it. Anyway, the darkness only lasts about a month or so. This winter, the Sun set last time on 5th of December at 12:27 PM after a 23 minute long "day" (sunrise was 12:04 PM):

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... and will be back next Tuesday. Last of January there will already be sunlight for over 5 and a half hours:

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(Screenshots from Sunrise and sunset times Enontekiö, January 2015.)

The reindeer stew is awesome

Very true .

 

[kado897]

Not too bad.

 

[z3r010]

This is more than enough for me.

 

[gregrocker]

Not for me.

I've only got two weeks in Florida this winter so I'm going to Hawaii to catch some North Shore waves.

 

[z3r010]

If only I could get direct flights to Hawaii

 

[Kari]

The summer compensates this. For example this summer of 2015, the sun rises on 23rd of May at 1:46 AM and will set next time on July 20th at 1:29 AM.

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[z3r010]

Mid summer here pisses me off 23:30 sunset, 03:30 sunrise

Finland would kill me lol

 

[Kari]

One funny detail, in Northern Finland there's every year a clear increase in child births in early October, just over 9 months after the darkest days of "Kaamos", our word for Polar Night.

 

[z3r010]

It was cold and snowed on December 25 2004, Hannah was born 20th September 2005

 

[kado897]

That's a good way to keep warm.