71 degrees North
During the next two weeks, I will be traveling North, ultimately ending up here.
The chances of having internet access are very small. Please don’t be surprised if you don’t hear from me on the blog for quite awhile. There may even be a day when Today’s Word doesn’t make it south. Don’t despair. I’ll ask Santa to forward the message. 🙂
The following from Wikipedia suggests you will not be as cold as I was afraid you might be, and you should be able to get a lot of future blogs written if you simply work while the sun is up . . . Godspeed!
“Even though Honningsvåg is located at the northernmost extreme of Europe, it has a subarctic climate, thanks to the Gulf Stream. Also, there is no permafrost because the mean annual temperature is 2 °C (36 °F). The July 24-hour average temperature is just over 10 °C (50 °F). Weather in winter is softened by the ice-free ocean, and the average temperature is not as low as that of most other locations around this latitude. In fact, winters at Honningsvåg are warmer than those of Oslo Airport, 1400 km (880 mi) to the southwest and eleven degrees of latitude farther from the north pole. Summers are cool and short. Mean annual precipitation is 765 millimetres (30.1 in). The wettest months are from October to January, with 85 millimetres (3.3 in) average precipitation per month, while the driest months are from May to July, with 43 millimetres (1.7 in) average precipitation per month.[5] The sun is up for 24 hours per day between 13 May and 31 July, and remains below the horizon continuously from 21 November to 21 January.”
For a “tropics” guy like me, this will be cold enough despite the maximum hours of sunshine. But, hey, I’ll let you know what it’s like to never see the sun go down.
Reminds me of a documentary film by Werner Herzog about the opposite “end” of the earth called, Encounters at the End of the World. It studies people and places in Antarctica with the very unique and quirky perspective so typical of Herzog. Maybe we can hope for something similar with photos and commentary about your excursion toward the north “end”.