Hooray - the evenings get lighter from today!

[Darbs]

We are over the hill!!

From today the evenings get lighter. Whilst the shortest day is actually the 23rd Dec, thats becasue the sunrise gets later as the sunset gets earlier, so the overall day length is still slightly shorter (measurable in seconds!).

The point is its all downhill from here!

 

[HG95]

I just wish the rain would stop

 

[milliepops]

about bloody time

I used to still feel so rubbish after the shortest day because the mornings still get darker for a while yet but now I don't go to the yard before work, so the lighter nights are what it's all about for me!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Whoop whoop!

 

[SEL]

Felt dark at about 2pm today with the rain clouds! Longest winter ever....

 

[Rumtytum]

Hoorahhhh!!! This afternoon was the absolute pits, just how I imagine it would be after a nuclear war.

 

[MyBoyChe]

Youve cheered me up, I thought it was the 21st so for it to be 3 days earlier is just fab. Now, if someone could just stop it raining I promise not to ask Santa for anything else

 

[Bellaboo18]

Wahoooooo! ?? Its been such a horrible autumn, I'll be glad to see the back of it! This afternoon I was really questioning my life choices in the vile weather....

 

[Darbs]

Youve cheered me up, I thought it was the 21st so for it to be 3 days earlier is just fab. Now, if someone could just stop it raining I promise not to ask Santa for anything else

Its actually technically the 13th December that the evenings get lighter, its just by such small amounts that it doesn't register! Today is the first day that sunset flips from 15:56 to 15:57.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

This afternoon was the absolute pits, just how I imagine it would be after a nuclear war.

That is what I have been thinking. Saw a programme once about nuclear winter and it really depressed me, horrid to be living through something similar.

 

[Abi90]

Its actually technically the 13th December that the evenings get lighter, its just by such small amounts that it doesn't register! Today is the first day that sunset flips from 15:56 to 15:57.

Ah you have a whole 10 minutes more daylight than me!

 

[cauda equina]

And 15 minutes more than me!
Sunset was 15 41 yesterday according to the Met Office, 15 42 today
I wonder how they calculate it?

 

[Cortez]

Hoorahhhh!!! This afternoon was the absolute pits, just how I imagine it would be after a nuclear war.

Except hopefully without the radiation burns and genetic mutations....

 

[Pippity]

Thank god!!!! Now, we just need to get past Christmas so the traffic calms down... (Took me two and a half hours to travel eighteen miles to the yard and back this evening.)

 

[Roxylola]

Ooh, mine is 15.50!
Over summer I stayed with friends in Brighton and commented it seemed to get dark early thinking I was just being a bit sensitive - I get a whole 25 minutes longer in summer evenings though

 

[cindars]

Funnily enough coming back from yard about 4 didn't need lights on my bike so onwards and upwards the sun when it's out disappears behind the Downs about 3.45 to 4 in the winter.

 

[DD]

Thank god!!!! Now, we just need to get past Christmas so the traffic calms down... (Took me two and a half hours to travel eighteen miles to the yard and back this evening.)

that's awful

 

[oldie48]

thanks for a positive post, I am going to hold onto that thought and try to ignore the rain.

 

[ycbm]

????

 

[still standing]

I like a bit of good news. I was carol singing (for charity) in the rain today and somehow that felt like a contradiction....should have been snow. (runs and hides!)

 

[BBP]

The rain clouds have the odd up side...nice sunset the other day (at 1530 on an early finish from work!)

 

[Abi90]

In Northumberland the sun sets but it doesn’t actually get dark around the summer solstice it’s great

 

[neddy man]

And from January 3rd the mornings get lighter.

 

[doodle]

15.37 here today and tomorrow then 15.38.

 

[Reacher]

And 15 minutes more than me!
Sunset was 15 41 yesterday according to the Met Office, 15 42 today
I wonder how they calculate it?

1550 for me yet aren't you further north than me ? (I’m in Cumbria)

 

[Birker2020]

Youve cheered me up, I thought it was the 21st so for it to be 3 days earlier is just fab. Now, if someone could just stop it raining I promise not to ask Santa for anything else

And I thought it was the 22nd. And I also thought it was 2 minutes a day, but its not. Some days its two minutes, other days its one and some days it stays the same. But on a happier note we have only 5% chance of rain on Xmas Day and no rain from Sunday to Wednesday in our neck of the woods, whoop whoop

 

[Widgeon]

Hoorahhhh!!! This afternoon was the absolute pits, just how I imagine it would be after a nuclear war.

Oh dear, that's a bit heavy, I think perhaps you need to go inside and have a nice drink of something and some chocolate....! It did make me laugh a lot though.

 

[cauda equina]

1550 for me yet aren't you further north than me ? (I’m in Cumbria)

No, I'm in Norfolk

 

[Rumtytum]

Oh dear, that's a bit heavy, I think perhaps you need to go inside and have a nice drink of something and some chocolate....! It did make me laugh a lot though.

Oh dear, that's a bit heavy, I think perhaps you need to go inside and have a nice drink of something and some chocolate....! It did make me laugh a lot though.

I saw the same film as Erin Paddywack(post #10), yesterday afternoon here was just like a post nuclear war winter?. Way brighter today, even a few patches of blue sky yay! (but am still eating the chocolate just in case ?)

 

[Annagain]

East-West makes a bit of a difference as well as the days being shorter the further North you go. Sunset is usually about 5 minutes later in S. Wales than it is in London.