Sky!

[melannen]

Being able to sit out on the screenporch eating cherries for three hours as the sun sets, and experience an awe-inspiring thunderstorm with the lightning bugs dancing under it, was almost worth the heat we've had so far this week. ...almost. What's the world doing where you are, this Solstice week?

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[loligo]

The solstice this far south is wrong, wrong, WRONG! It should stay light until 10:30 PM, at least! You should need to put on a jacket by 8:00 PM!

Instead the sun disappears pretty much like it does on any other summer night, by 9:00, and the temperature never even gets down to 70 before dawn.

Midsummer night was a big deal in my family when I was a kid, and I'll never be able to recreate that experience for my children for a whole host of reasons, but the nature/climate differences are certainly one part of it.

[melannen]

Heh, and we were sitting out on the porch going "it's after 8:30, why is it so light? Oh right, solstice!"

I've never lived in a place where you regularly get sunlight much after 9 PM local time (or sunset much before 5 PM) so that I'm even weirded out when we just travel to the western edge of the timezone and sunset's around 10.