Definitely getting lighter

[blitznbobs]

Been working from home today and just started to think about getting ponies in... looked at the clock It is 4 O'clock (ish) and not pitch black outside...


There is now officially light at the end of the tunnel! (I'm not the greatest fan of winter and its mud.)

*Happy dance*

 

[teddy_]

Yes ? ! I thought exactly this the other day, ambling through town with a friend and gone 4pm, it was not dark.

The end is in sight!

 

[bouncing_ball]

Mornings still feel very dark!

 

[Roxylola]

I noticed yesterday ?

 

[littleshetland]

I know!! it really cheers me up!

 

[Berpisc]

It feels even better when there are clear skies, but yes, the nights are very slowly drawing out again.

 

[AmyMay]

Just said exactly the same to OH. 4.50, and still not dark!!

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Mornings still feel very dark!

Yes, 8.05 was officially sunrise today, but due to increase by a bit to 7.40 by the end of the month here, with sunset at 16.48 that day too!

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

I thought the same today it does help when it's clear and lovely and bright which it was today.

 

[Roxylola]

Yes, 8.05 was officially sunrise today, but due to increase by a bit to 7.40 by the end of the month here, with sunset at 16.48 that day too!

Wow, I know we benefit from lighter hours past the equinox, but official sunrise is still 8:24 here at the moment!

 

[PapaverFollis]

Pffft.

?

 

[MereChristmas]

Mum used to visit for Christmas and New Year. I always noticed the lighter evenings after we had taken her home.
This year is the first without her. It may perhaps become one of those recurring little memories.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Wow, I know we benefit from lighter hours past the equinox, but official sunrise is still 8:24 here at the moment!

One of the upsides of livvin near Lunnon tahn me ducks, probably the only one tho ???

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Pffft.

?

I can go right orf some people ??

 

[Flowerofthefen]

I could still see to ride in school at 5pm! Just! Really want to mornings to get lighter though. I prefer riding in the morning. The school has lights but they are a ball ache to start up.

 

[southerncomfort]

Mornings still feel very dark!

I swear it hasn't got any lighter at all in the mornings

 

[bouncing_ball]

I swear it hasn't got any lighter at all in the mornings

It has yet to get lighter in mornings, only evenings. Will eventually get lighter in morning too.

 

[PapaverFollis]

It continues to get darker in the mornings after the solstice, it has just turned over the last couple of days.

 

[PapaverFollis]

*something to do with physics*

 

[Flowerofthefen]

It continues to get darker in the mornings after the solstice, it has just turned over the last couple of days.

2 weeks before Xmas I could tack up at 7am. It was still fairly dark but by the time I'd tacked up I could see to ride in the school. Cant do that at the moment!

 

[PurBee]

I love this part of the year….then height of june its 11pm here before its dark!

Theres an hours difference between east uk midlands and west ireland in terms of light/dark times…never knew that before moving here and skyping east uk friends saying “its dark here”…and us - ”oh its not dark yet here!”

 

[Not_so_brave_anymore]

Fun fact- the darkest morning was 2nd Jan, so even the mornings are officially getting lighter as well now ?? (the evenings have been getting lighter for a few weeks already. It's all down to the fact that there aren't exactly 24hrs in a day, and that noon isn't at exactly 12:00. Apparently ?‍)

 

[maisie06]

It's pitch black at 7am when I walk the dogs, I seem to remember it's around the 2nd week of feb that it's broad daylight in the mornings. I hate january, dark cold and wet!

 

[Cowpony]

It's really difficult in the mornings at this time of year. We have to bring in down a road with a large school on it, so by the time it's 8am and light enough to walk on the road the traffic is building. Add in some parked cars and double decker busses, and you really aren't popular! I work at home, so currently I start at 7am, work until 8.30, and then get the horses in at 9ish and go home for more work. Luckily we have an indoor school and the outdoor one has lights, so I ride in the evening.

 

[Quigleyandme]

I love this part of the year….then height of june its 11pm here before its dark!

Theres an hours difference between east uk midlands and west ireland in terms of light/dark times…never knew that before moving here and skyping east uk friends saying “its dark here”…and us - ”oh its not dark yet here!”

My son has commented on it still being light here in Sligo when he FaceTimes me from London on summer nights. I thought it was because I live on the margin of an expansive bog and there is nothing to block the sky. There are a pair of starlings renovating their nest in the cavity wall of the stables. They cheer me up when I’m mucking out at sparrow’s cough before work with their whistles and chatter and make me believe spring is on it’s way.

 

[PapaverFollis]

On Friday my sunrise goes to before 9am for the first time in a while. 9.05am, I think, was my latest sunrise. But it continues to move at a minute a day all week. Sunset is moving at two minutes a day.

It's stupid dark! But it changes really fast.

 

[Roxylola]

The first time I camped to see my friend who lives in Brighton I was really bewildered about what time it was in the evenings. I'd be convinced it was at near 10 and it would be not much past 9 it was only when I looked up sunset times I figured it out ?

 

[J&S]

We have noticed the slightly longer days in the south west.

 

[Birker2020]

Getting there! pop your postcode in and it will search for data in your neck of the woods! https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/

 

[Birker2020]

Glad I don't live in Aberdeen!