Midsummer morn, anything happening?

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 04:16 PM

which brings us back to why is midsummer in June? based on the weather etc, it should be in august or at least late july. (at least for much of the northern hemisphere.)

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: mousethief
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 04:10 PM

Midsummer's day was around LONG before anybody had the bright (I'm being sarcastic) idea of fixing the seasons to the solstices and equinoxes. Check it out: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_170b.html

Alex

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 03:50 PM

Come you lot, pagan's all. The solstice is the longest day. The sun rises at it's earliest and sets at it's latest.Mid summers day is June 24th.

Don't forget that there have been climate changes since the solstice days and equinoxes were worked out. Take for instance frost fairs that happened before the winter solstice, when rivers were frozen and winter had a good grip. now a days, the winter though not as cold is only just begining to grip in the UK

One explanation for mid summers day being only 3 days after the solstice is that our summers are so bloody horrible that by a week later it's raining again and so summer happens within a week (joke)

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: Matt_R
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 03:47 PM

Ah, now you got me singing Travis's "Midsummer Nights"!

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 03:31 PM

they should, most of them take a lot of heat most of the time.

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: RichM
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 03:25 PM

Burning a bodhran player--what an idea!

Do they give off a lot of heat?

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 02:32 PM

Ah yes JohnJ, Alderley Edge, where legend has it, King Arthur lays buried awaiting the call when England falls into peril. What better place for the sacrificial burning of an annoying bodhran player!

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: Midchuck
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 02:23 PM

Well, the official beginning of summer would be the solistice, June 21, and the official end would be the equinox, Sept. 21 - so Midsummer should be halfway between them...which would be about six weeks after the solistice and six weeks before the equinox...which makes it somewhere in the first few days of August.

But people seem to refer to the solistice as "Midsummer."

I don't get it.

Peter.

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 01:43 PM

When is midsummer, anyway? Is it the solstice?

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: John J
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 01:29 PM

If you live around here you'd be forgiven for thinking that we are still in winter!

John

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: MMario
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 01:27 PM

Can anyone tell me why it's midsummer when it's actually the beginning of summer?

Subject: RE: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: Sorcha
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 01:25 PM

I'll be sleeping.....zzzzzzzzzzz

Subject: Midsummer morn, anything happening?
From: John J
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 01:23 PM

Midsummer morning is almost upon us up here in the Northern Hemisphere.

I have in the past gone up to Alderley Edge, not too far from where I live in Cheshire, to watch the sun rise. I have seen Morris sides dancing up there in past Mayday sunrises and midsummer morning sunrises.

Does anybody know if there's anything happening around here (or anywhere else for that matter) this coming midsummer morning?

John