Really. At this longitude and latitude, our shortest day was 21-Dec with 9 hours and 1 minute of daylight. The sun rose at 7:16 and set at 4:17.
On this Saturday, 29-Jan, the sun will rise at 7:05 and set at 4:57 for 9:52 of daylight or a whopping plus 51 minutes. Whoo-hoo!
But, even better, because high noon isn't exactly noon, we gained more daylight in the afternoon. The earliest sunsets were from 2-Dec to 15-Dec at 4:14, which means the sun sets 53 minutes later on Saturday. (Conversely the sun rose at its latest from 31-Dec to 6-Jan at 7:19. So we've only gained 14 minutes there, but who cares at that early hour.)
And on January 31, next Monday, the sun will set at 5:00PM. Watch out spring!
COLD AND SOLITUDE
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Freezing weather here after a snowfall. Here again is a winter hokku by
Hashin: No sky, no earth;Only snowCeaselessly falling. And here is Kimio
Eto playin...
3 months ago
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I supopse that's a slightly optimistic way of looking at it. I will use that extra 14 minutes to drink another can of Schlitz...
Ah the breakfast of champions!
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