Some confusion this morning in the Instant Kaamos office concerning the news carried by Selkouutiset of the end of the kaamos in Northern Finland. Apparently yesterday, the sun showed it’s face again in Utsjoki — Finland’s most northerly municipality – for the first time in 51 days, bringing the period of polar night to an end.
There’s quite a difference within the parts of Finland that fall inside the Arctic Circle. In Rovaniemi, for example, sitting just about on the circle, it is only on the day of the winter solstice that the sun doesn’t rise.
But when I checked the Gaisma site, it seems that Utsjoki will today enjoy a day nearly an hour and a half long. This does not compute. Any suggestions or explanations, however implausible, will be warmly welcomed.
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January 21st, 2012 at 08:13
I have not been in Lapland during real Kaamos. In winter only in Kemi, where is world’s biggest snow castle. Next month I visit there again for the third time.
In my series of “Beyond the Arctic Circle”, I visit in Utsjoki also.
Happy week-end!