Europe at midnight New Years Eve

[fifi]

[SheilaW]

Which midnight was that? I mean, we're on GMT at the moment, along with the UK, Portugal and a couple of others, but most of the rest are an hour or more ahead.

[Ronnietheblue]

Great picture Fifi, think it must be rest of Europe Sheila, i spent a fiver on a chinese lantern and can't see it rising above yorkshire.

[fifi]

Put your glasses on Ronnie. I can see it.

I think its GMT Sheila. The photo was posted on Twitter

[Ole Man River]

     Great picture Fifi! Whatever the hour, who cares!

[fifi]

These Forum kisses are great.  

[lionfish]

Only just seen the photo - great!
Do I take it that all the oil wells in the North Sea have their lights on full power?

[duncolm]

Do I take it that they show a lot of red lights in Ireland?

[fifi]

Do I take it that they show a lot of red lights in Ireland?

Oh yes....all inhibitions are lost on New Years Eve in Ireland....its the Cead mile failte season .

Im trying to find your oil rigs Lionfish but my Geography is terrible.

[Elite of the forum]

ummh it was cloudy in Lancashire 

[fifi]

Ah no.....they were just having fun with the lights out Roar.    

[fifi]

Based on Duncolms observations and also the photographic evidence I think we should now assume that Ireland can now be officially known as the main red light district in Europe.   ..............well at least on New Years Eve  :


Please note that the Dubs all had their white lights on.

[Can the Man]

Brilliant photo Fi, well done

feel the love and kisses 

[dagwood]

Please dont let Jand see this.

[fatherted]

ummh it was cloudy in Lancashire 

I was driving on the M60/62 from Manc.airport to West Yks and we could see firework displays far and wide especially once we got near Birch svs.

[fifi]

Brilliant photo Fi, well done

feel the love and kisses 

Oooh.............im feeling it big time Can the Man.              

[AE1905]

That's the problem with twitter; It's not even a photograph. It's from 2006, all the lights are false colour. It's an image meant to portray the following;

Europe at night, showing the change in illumination from 1993-2003. This data is based on satellite observations. Lights are colour-coded. Red lights appeared during that period. Orange and yellow areas are regions of high and low intensity lighting respectively that increased in brightness over the ten years. Grey areas are unchanged. Pale blue and dark blue areas are of low and high intensity lighting that decreased in brightness. Very dark blue areas were present in 1993 and had disappeared by 2003. Much of western and central Europe has brightened considerably. Some North Sea gas fields closed in the period.

Reference

If you like pictures of the Earth from space google 'Blue Beauty' (You may wish to have safe search on)

I'll save you the trouble;

Blue Beauty

[AE1905]

My suggestion that you should Google 'Blue Beauty', reminds me of my early days in teaching.

Interactive whiteboards had just come out, but were mainly used as a massive TV to show the kids what was on your computer screen. Implementing ICT into your lessons was encouraged, and was one of the boxes we had to tick should OFSTED come calling. As far as engagement went, they were brilliant! Most households still had old 26" CRT televisions, and you could completely hook the kids with anything you showed them in 'massive vision'. For them, it was like going to the cinema.

The day comes, we get the call, OFSTED are on the way. A more established colleague than I had planned the perfect lesson, so good, the kids raced through the work. It was truly outstanding; the OFSTED inspector sat smiling throughout, and gave knowing nods whenever the teacher would look at him. The problem was the lesson went too well and finished 5 minutes early. Sorry, I should probably tell you what the lesson was. It was a year 6 class, and they were studying a piece of literature in preparation for their upcoming SATs exam. I won't tell you what the book was, that's the point of this post.

As there were five minutes left, my colleague decided it would be a good idea to help the students visualise the text by doing an image search of the book they were reading. Completely unplanned BTW. As I have said, this excellent teacher was a senior member of staff, who had been teaching for thirty years. Unfortunately, she was not IT literate, nor was she internet savvy. Add to this, internet filters were not what they are now.

The gasp from the OFSTED inspector was audible throughout the school as the images appeared. I'm not going to tell you what the title of the book was, but it had something to do with a horse.

[Ronnietheblue]

Not the one written by Anna Sewell, that could be very embarrassing. Very interesting Post, no wonder i cant find my chinese lantern

[fifi]

That's the problem with twitter; It's not even a photograph. It's from 2006, all the lights are false colour. It's an image meant to portray the following;

Europe at night, showing the change in illumination from 1993-2003. This data is based on satellite observations. Lights are colour-coded. Red lights appeared during that period. Orange and yellow areas are regions of high and low intensity lighting respectively that increased in brightness over the ten years. Grey areas are unchanged. Pale blue and dark blue areas are of low and high intensity lighting that decreased in brightness. Very dark blue areas were present in 1993 and had disappeared by 2003. Much of western and central Europe has brightened considerably. Some North Sea gas fields closed in the period.

Reference

If you like pictures of the Earth from space google 'Blue Beauty' (You may wish to have safe search on)

I'll save you the trouble;

Blue Beauty

Thanks AE1905, believe it or not I spent ages trying to figure out why all of the countries had different coloured lights. I loved the photo (or image) when it was sent to Joe Duffy (RTE) from a Twitter post

[Paddster]

Well I think its a great picture regardless if when its from.............Cheers Fi