180’2025 (2025-06-29) – Sunday
Today, I learned about:
June is normally considered as a summer month on the Northern hemisphere, meaning that the Southern hemisphere is starting to experience winter. And, of course, the farther away one gets from the equator, the more extreme the weather conditions normally get. One such interesting phenomenon is the Midnight sun, when the sun never sets during at least two weeks.
Therefore, it is it understandable that those who live in the priviledged areas want to celebrate the occasion. From my own experience I remember the light summer nights in June in Sweden, peaked around the Summer solstice, with its wonderful parties. But also on more Southern latitudes in Europe, there are great celebrations during the summer season. An example of that is Portugal, where the festas juninas (June parties) are being held in many places.
And since Portugal dominated Brazil during more than 300 years, those parties were introduced also in Brazil and are still prevalent during the month of June, even though the meteorogical conditions may be more adverse.
My girlfriend and I had the pleasure of participating in a really animated festa junina on 170’2025 (2025-06-19) as part of the activities at a fabulous resort in Comandatuba, state of Bahia, Brazil. Today’s header photo was taken at the resort. Here are also some photos and a video clip, with the typical music style called forró, from the festa junina. See also reference #1 (in Portuguese) below.
Finally, you may have enjoyed the FIFA Club World Cup in football that is being played in various venues in the USA. Earlier this month was reported FIFA had made a change in the rules for offside, thanks to an observation from a small Swedish club, Torns IF, in 2023. See reference #2 below for more information.
That’s what I learned in school today!
Ref.:
What did you learn in School today? 