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The sun is going to stay shining all night tonight!

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  • 08-07-2013 5:44pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 28,215 ✭✭✭✭


    My 87yr old Uncle was telling me this a couple of hours ago, Don't know where he's after seeing or hearing it or is it wise old age?

    He reckons the sun is staying up all night tonight, anyone else hear this or has it ever happened here?


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,987 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    All I can say on that subject is that your username is quite apt! :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,522 ✭✭✭✭fits


    Tis. At about 68 degrees north.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,215 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    haven't been drinking and the guys not a joker, don't know where he came out with it from....


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,716 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    I heard it was shining all last nigHt too !! OMG


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    The sun is always shinning, earth orbits around it.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 28,215 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    He said you won't get to sleep as it's going to stay bright tonight...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭CastingCouch


    He said you won't get to sleep as it's going to stay bright tonight...

    His lights are on alright..

    Mightn't be anyone home. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭TheoBane


    Feels like i found one of those yahoo meme's


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    0443_9zkmf.gif


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,503 ✭✭✭adamski8


    only if you keep staring at it OP


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  • Registered Users Posts: 932 ✭✭✭snowstorm445


    My 87yr old Uncle was telling me this a couple of hours ago, Don't know where he's after seeing or hearing it or is it wise old age?

    He reckons the sun is staying up all night tonight, anyone else hear this or has it ever happened here?

    No, hence why its called night (the Sun isn't overhead), as opposed to day. For somewhere like Ireland to experience sunshine for 24 hours it would need to move more than 10 degrees further north latitudinally.

    I think your title is misleading. Just because, as a star, the Sun sets below the horizon doesn't mean it stops shining. Its not as if it just shuts down or turns off just because the part of the Earth where Ireland is happens to be turned away from it. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭dexter647


    In fairness op your uncle sounds like right crack:D...My late grandad always came out with one liners like that:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    Maybe he meant the moon OP :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 48,247 ✭✭✭✭km79


    It's still bright .....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Ah here. A bit of common sense could figure this out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Ah here. A bit of common sense could figure this out.

    I agree, let's stay up all night and prove the OP's crazy uncle wrong!

    Oh wait, maybe not...


  • Registered Users Posts: 682 ✭✭✭eastmayo


    Tiss gone dark....sun must be gone behind big black cloud.


  • Registered Users Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Jeez thought I'd stumbled into AH there for a moment


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭sunbeam


    It technically doesn't get any darker than astronomical twilight here (54N) until the end of the month, though that is barely discernible now unlike a month ago.


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,513 ✭✭✭✭M.T. Cranium


    Hey, he was right, the sun is shining brightly here right now.

    Oh yeah I forgot, don't live there. Just seems like it when the weather gets similar. ;)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭boatbuilder


    This reminds me of an old neighbour we had who once very genuinely and seriously asked
    "Sure isn't the moon just what the sun looks like at night time? "


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,930 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Darn this all night Sun I was in Salthill last night and have severe sunburn, will the op come back now and get his relative to tell us what happened


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,672 ✭✭✭Speak Now


    I think it's too cold to snow


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    Here is Quilty Co Clare at 11. 30 Monday nights


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,296 ✭✭✭Geomy


    Sorry I meant to say last Monday night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    It's just nlc's. Ice crystals in the atmosphere reflecting sun light. Although none tonight: http://www.spaceweather.com/DAISY_PICS/current_daisy.png?PHPSESSID=dqtn9v0jmk6scrti9dms5v3051

    800px-Helkivad_%C3%B6%C3%B6pilved_Kuresoo_kohal.jpg


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