Light returns!

[marykaykare]

It's only a little more than 3 weeks since the solstice but already things are looking up. At 5:15pm (that's 17:15 for you right pondians) there is light in the sky. It probably helps a lot that it was a clear afternoon so there's no cloud cover. Nevertheless, progress!

Comments

[ellarien]

I'm seeing a difference here too -- though we're enough further north that it was exciting to realize it wasn't quite dark at ten to five last Sunday. It helps that sunset actually starts getting earlier a week or two before solstice. In another month or so, I should start seeing the first faint glimmers of late-afternoon sun in my living room.

[gilraen2]

kent and I get up for our early swim class at the Y three times a week, and leave the house at 6:15am. so we see the sun from the other side - watching week by week as it gets a little lighter, and a little lighter, and finally there is actually dawn in the sky as we drive to the pool.

[gilraen2]

When we were in York, England last month - just a week before the solstice - sunrise was at 8:30 in the morning and then it was going down at 3:30pm. That's pretty far north, and a pretty short day. Although I do remember taking a student group to Durham (even farther north) in the 90s and having it get light at 4am and stay light until almost 11pm.

[marykaykare]

My first husband's parents lived in Alaska. We visited them once for Christmas -- it was, uh, interesting.
MKK