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But then if you live in an igloo in Barrow, Alaska, sunrise isn't for another three months.
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But then if you live in an igloo in Barrow, Alaska, sunrise isn't for another three months.
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That's the problem! You live in Canada, which province I don't know. I'm talking about Barrow, Alaska, which may be much farther north than you.
Anything above the Arctic Circle has the same effect during Winter Solstice. That is how they figured out how to mark the arctic circle in the first place. That is the region of the earth that the sun does not rise on during Winter Solstice. But it only happens for 1 day to 3 days. Though the days before and after the sunrise and sunset would also be relatively short, I guess most people wouldn't consider it having daylight at all. But scientifically, how they define sunrise and sunset, they do experience that the other days, no matter how brief the difference between. I live in the Lower Mainland, and we don't see the sun from September to May. It's all gray clouds and rain  |
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I hear Canada's nice this time of year.
Depends if you really like snow and bone breaking (literally) cold. Or if you live in the West Coast like I do, endless rain. Bone breaking cold?! There's none of that in Southern Ontario this year. We haven't even had any real snow to speak of (mostly rain). That said, having grown up in Saskatchewan, I know the cold of which you speak. |
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Bone breaking cold?! There's none of that in Southern Ontario this year. We haven't even had any real snow to speak of (mostly rain).
That said, having grown up in Saskatchewan, I know the cold of which you speak.
Good for you then. I'm lucky and hoping that it won't snow in the city here in Vancouver. I'm trying to avoid to buy winter tires for my minivan. Temperature here never stays below zero anyway, save for a week or two. Though our local mountains are getting a huge dump of snow now, great news if you love skiing. |
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Bone breaking cold?! There's none of that in Southern Ontario this year. We haven't even had any real snow to speak of (mostly rain).
That said, having grown up in Saskatchewan, I know the cold of which you speak.
Good for you then. I'm lucky and hoping that it won't snow in the city here in Vancouver. I'm trying to avoid to buy winter tires for my minivan. Temperature here never stays below zero anyway, save for a week or two. Though our local mountains are getting a huge dump of snow now, great news if you love skiing. I was living out there in Victoria one winter. The roads were pure chaos when it snowed a few inches overnight! People were not used to the snow.  Vancouver is a great city. |
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Bone breaking cold?! There's none of that in Southern Ontario this year. We haven't even had any real snow to speak of (mostly rain).
That said, having grown up in Saskatchewan, I know the cold of which you speak.
Good for you then. I'm lucky and hoping that it won't snow in the city here in Vancouver. I'm trying to avoid to buy winter tires for my minivan. Temperature here never stays below zero anyway, save for a week or two. Though our local mountains are getting a huge dump of snow now, great news if you love skiing. I was living out there in Victoria one winter. The roads were pure chaos when it snowed a few inches overnight! People were not used to the snow. Vancouver is a great city. We also have a fraction of the snow clearing budget most Canadian cities have. As long as the winter of 2008 doesn't happen again soon, we're fine. We had 2-feet of snow over Christmas that year and secondary roads weren't cleared of snow for a month! Despite above than freezing temperatures, city just didn't have the money to plow secondary roads. Rule of thumb, buy a home on a street that a bus drives through. Otherwise, don't expect any snow clearing. |
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Depends if you really like snow and bone breaking (literally) cold. Or if you live in the West Coast like I do, endless rain. Bone breaking cold?! There's none of that in Southern Ontario this year. We haven't even had any real snow to speak of (mostly rain). That said, having grown up in Saskatchewan, I know the cold of which you speak. I lived in Northern Minnesota on the Mesabi Iron Range for a short time. Most sunny days were 15 below. Nights were usually 20 to 30 below. It could get down to 50 or 60 below zero once in a while. There was always something white in the air, either a lot or just a dusting but all the time; The times it got up to zero you could feel a bit a warmth in the air and could unzip a little. You had to plug you car into an electric outlet to keep your oil from freezing. All parking lots had an outlet in front of each space. It sucked |
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« Reply #67 on: December 20, 2012, 07:16:39 PM » |
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Bone breaking cold?! There's none of that in Southern Ontario this year. We haven't even had any real snow to speak of (mostly rain).
That said, having grown up in Saskatchewan, I know the cold of which you speak.
Good for you then. I'm lucky and hoping that it won't snow in the city here in Vancouver. I'm trying to avoid to buy winter tires for my minivan. Temperature here never stays below zero anyway, save for a week or two. Though our local mountains are getting a huge dump of snow now, great news if you love skiing. I was living out there in Victoria one winter. The roads were pure chaos when it snowed a few inches overnight! People were not used to the snow. Vancouver is a great city. We also have a fraction of the snow clearing budget most Canadian cities have. As long as the winter of 2008 doesn't happen again soon, we're fine. We had 2-feet of snow over Christmas that year and secondary roads weren't cleared of snow for a month! Despite above than freezing temperatures, city just didn't have the money to plow secondary roads. Rule of thumb, buy a home on a street that a bus drives through. Otherwise, don't expect any snow clearing. ah, good ole Canada, how's Toronto doing  I need to go back this summer |
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"Be oppressed, rather than the oppressor. Be gentle, rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice." -St. Isaac of of Nineveh
"Men never do evil so cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" -Pascal
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