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When I went to Sweden for a semester, I knew the “days would be short” but what I didn’t understand was _how_ they would be short. I imagined the sun “flying a
by iambateman 4y ago
When I went to Sweden for a semester, I knew the “days would be short” but what I didn’t understand was _how_ they would be short.
I imagined the sun “flying across the sky” quickly to make it a short day.
In fact, the sun barely peeks up over the horizon, glimmers with some disorienting side-light for a few hours before settling back below the horizon. This created an effect which was like a literal twilight zone and was totally surreal.
- cdelsolar 4y agoI visited Reykjavik during the winter solstice, and stayed there for a bit over a week. I had the same misapprehension as you. At noon, the sun was just barely over the horizon and it felt like days never got much brighter than twilight. It was very strange.
- aj7 4y agoEven northern Germany, in Gottingen, was jarring to this American. You carefully planned your day around daylight, and made sure to go outside at lunchtime.