The changing daylight hours thread

[stainesbloke]

Am noticing the nights drawing in now quite quickly. Always quite a wistful feeling for me, especially as I’m a bit of a S.A.D. sufferer. Luckily it’s been a fabulous summer for sunshine amounts, so I don’t feel shortchanged moving towards autumn. 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

1 hour ago, stainesbloke said:

Am noticing the nights drawing in now quite quickly. Always quite a wistful feeling for me, especially as I’m a bit of a S.A.D. sufferer. Luckily it’s been a fabulous summer for sunshine amounts, so I don’t feel shortchanged moving towards autumn. 

Bang on exactly how I feel. We've been very, very lucky!

[stainesbloke]

31 minutes ago, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Bang on exactly how I feel. We've been very, very lucky!

It was too hot at times. And it’d be good not to be in a drought, of course. But what a summer for enjoying outdoors activities. Looks like it’s not over yet, either.

[Sunny76]

7 minutes ago, stainesbloke said:

It was too hot at times. And it’d be good not to be in a drought, of course. But what a summer for enjoying outdoors activities. Looks like it’s not over yet, either.

Hope it stays above 20c until late October. Wouldn’t that be lovely lol.

[stainesbloke]

1 hour ago, Sunny76 said:

Hope it stays above 20c until late October. Wouldn’t that be lovely lol.

Yes, extreme heat can do one but pleasant warmth is always welcome. By late October it’s nice to get seasonal mists/fogs and frosts by night, but sunny, warm days are lovely

[Sunny76]

On 17/08/2022 at 13:24, stainesbloke said:

It was too hot at times. And it’d be good not to be in a drought, of course. But what a summer for enjoying outdoors activities. Looks like it’s not over yet, either.

Summer 2022 has been my favourite since 2018. Hands down much sunnier across all 3 summer months, compared to 2019, 20 and 21.

[Sunny76]

Woke up at 5am to do my side job, and noticing the gradual change now.

It was still completely bright by this time around 2-3 weeks ago, but now you see the daylight is still more twilight.

Another week or two, and it will be still dark at 5am. 

[damianslaw]

Under overcast skies and rain, it was already quite dark by 7.30pm this evening, the lightness is slipping away fast..

[philglossop]

It’s been the best Summer for me since 1995.

However this morning was the first time the sun came up post 6am which I really noticed on a lie in for me.  Autumn is a coming!!!

[ChannelThunder]

Evenings are already such a departure from high summer. Sun's setting just after 8 and there's a chill in the air after dinnertime

[cheeky_monkey]

now at the stage where we are losing approx 30 mins of daylight each week..15 mins in the morning...15 mins in the evening

[Sunny76]

On 21/08/2022 at 13:57, philglossop said:

It’s been the best Summer for me since 1995.

However this morning was the first time the sun came up post 6am which I really noticed on a lie in for me.  Autumn is a coming!!!

2018 was still decent I think. 

[Daniel*]

11 hours ago, Sunny76 said:

2018 was still decent I think. 

One of best summers of 21st century. 2018 is clearly superior summer to this one imo May was also brilliant this May was poor, even though August was worse. Sunshine has not been phenomenal.

Edited August 23, 2022 by Daniel*

[reef]

Just passed 200 hours of sunshine, so it's the first summer with more than 200 hours of sunshine in all three months since 1989 for us.

Edited August 23, 2022 by reef

[Weather Enthusiast91]

20 hours ago, Sunny76 said:

2018 was still decent I think. 

I would have been happy to have had a repeat performance of summer 2018.

It was hot for much of the time, but not ridiculously hot like the two heatwaves we've seen this summer. We also got somewhat acclimatised to the temps seen in summer 2018 as it went on for so long and the warm up was more gradual, whereas this summer the heatwaves were more erratic. As a result, August that year came as a bit of a shock. But really it was quite pleasant as far as Augusts go.

Edited August 23, 2022 by Weather Enthusiast91

[damianslaw]

Nearly reaching peak rate loss of daylight.. its from here on in, really start to notice loss, especially on overcast evenings. Those wonderful light nights long gone..

[Don]

22 minutes ago, damianslaw said:

Nearly reaching peak rate loss of daylight.. its from here on in, really start to notice loss, especially on overcast evenings. Those wonderful light nights long gone..

Wonder when we are going to start feeling the wonderful autumn chill to go with the diminishing light evenings?!

[Nick L]

1 minute ago, Don said:

Wonder when we are going to start feeling the wonderful autumn chill to go with the diminishing light evenings?!

Soon I hope. Sick of the constant muggy, sweaty nights.

[Don]

Just now, Nick L said:

Soon I hope. Sick of the constant muggy, sweaty nights.

Yep and tonight is no exception!

[Dark Horse]

Noticeably darker now. So good to not be woken up very early by the rising sun in June and July with the birds going crazy. Entering my favourite slice of the year now - late August to late March.

[Sunny76]

It’s ok at the moment, but I really find hard going once we move into late September, and the mornings are dark until 6:30 by that point. 

[Stewart M]

38 minutes ago, Dark Horse said:

Noticeably darker now. So good to not be woken up very early by the rising sun in June and July with the birds going crazy. Entering my favourite slice of the year now - late August to late March.

Agree 100%!  Now, if only the weather would get the message and cool down a little more.

[cheeky_monkey]

6 minutes ago, Sunny76 said:

It’s ok at the moment, but I really find hard going once we move into late September, and the mornings are dark until 6:30 by that point. 

morning are already nearly dark here at 6.30am sunrise is now past that time already 

[Sunny76]

17 hours ago, cheeky_monkey said:

morning are already nearly dark here at 6.30am sunrise is now past that time already 

Yeah, I remember when I lived in Toronto, you would lose daylight much quicker compared to the U.K.

Its further south. 

[Frost HoIIow]

21 minutes ago, Sunny76 said:

Yeah, I remember when I lived in Toronto, you would lose daylight much quicker compared to the U.K.

Its further south. 

Yeah Edmonton is as far north as my location. Since this time last month we've lost almost 2 hours of daylight.