What's happening in your world?

[Farseer]

This time of the year can be incredibly miserable and tough when it's all rain and sleet and 19 hours of darkness + 5 hours of greyness but YAY REAL WINTER!!!

I honestly doubt I could operate in such conditions ...unless I was allowed to shut down altogether and just hole up in a warm room with books all day/night?! How do you all overcome the difficulties involved with going on living, attending school and work etc? The cold is one thing but rain and sleet, let alone a lack of light, as well?

Of course, I do read books, watch movies etc about all of this but obviously have little true understanding or appreciation for the circumstances. It's midnight and I'm still in need of air-conditioning with the temperature currently at 34 degrees inside!

At the moment sunrise is at 05:42 (with first light around 5:18) and sunset at 19:06 (with last light around 19:30, though driving home here earlier tonight, the sky was still light at 20:00). Of course, we are approaching our Summer Solstice .

At Winter Solstice next year, sunrise is set for 7:02 and sunset will be around 17:55, so we will still get a good eleven hours of sunshine even in the dead of our North Queensland winter.

I just checked the link for Hämeenlinna, and shivered...!