The changing daylight hours thread

[Sunny76]

5 minutes ago, cheeky_monkey said:

no im further North ..same latitude as Manchester 

Oh ok. 
 

Toronto would get light around 5am and dark around 9pm during peak summer period, with twilight lasting until 10pm at the latest.

Back to here, the late twilight feeling has gone, and those early twilight pre 4am mornings are long gone by a couple of weeks. 

[Dark Horse]

Definitely starting to draw in a bit now the nights. Not notable compared to say late August but it's chugging along now and a reminder we're going into late Summer. 

[ANYWEATHER]

9pm, and it's getting dark here already despite clearing skies.  Give it another month and it will be getting dark like this by 8pm.....

[Don]

3 hours ago, Sunny76 said:

Back to here, the late twilight feeling has gone, and those early twilight pre 4am mornings are long gone by a couple of weeks. 

Still have the twilight feeling here with sunset about 15 mins later than London.  However, the twilight feeling will be gone within a week or so.

[Don]

On 17/07/2023 at 23:37, CreweCold said:

The only thing I don’t like about autumn is the glut of spiders early on in the season. Seemingly every day you see a house spider the size of a rodent scuttling across the floor.

They're good at this time of the year though as they keep the mozzies at bay!

[snowgirl30]

I finished work at 9pm last night and its first night needed headlights on. August 6th is our first pre 9pm sunset. Mid august I start to feel the autumn vibes here.

[Sunny76]

As we enter August, we started turning the lights on about 8:50pm.

Still summer vibes, but in about 2 weeks time it will start to shift to that late summer feeling. 

[damianslaw]

Today marks the last day without official 'night' here. Night light so to speak. 

[cheeky_monkey]

lost 2 hrs of daylight here already..sunrise is now an 1 hour later than it was at the solstice..things only accelerate from here as we lose 30 mins of daylight a week on average until about November

[*Stormforce~beka*]

On 02/08/2023 at 00:01, Sunny76 said:

As we enter August, we started turning the lights on about 8:50pm.

Still summer vibes, but in about 2 weeks time it will start to shift to that late summer feeling. 

Doesn't feel like Any summer time and hardly has all year! Never mind a late summer feel.

[Don]

On 02/08/2023 at 00:01, Sunny76 said:

As we enter August, we started turning the lights on about 8:50pm.

Still summer vibes, but in about 2 weeks time it will start to shift to that late summer feeling. 

Yep, the nights drawing in will soon be noticeable up here!

[Weather Enthusiast91]

Sunset time for my location is now pre 9pm. 8:55pm tonight to be more exact.

[Weather Enthusiast91]

50 minutes ago, Don said:

Yep, the nights drawing in will soon be noticeable up here!

It has already started to become noticeable over here and I am finding that I am having to close my curtains earlier when I have gotten used to closing them at around 9:30pm. It's still very gradual though and once we get to mid August it really starts to speed up.

[Summer of 95]

40 minutes ago, Don said:

Yep, the nights drawing in will soon be noticeable up here!

Somebody must have told you by now, they start drawing in after the Shrewsbury flower show  

[Weather Enthusiast91]

On 03/08/2023 at 00:32, *Stormforce~beka* said:

Doesn't feel like Any summer time and hardly has all year! Never mind a late summer feel.

January - some of it winter, some of it autumn.
February - spring.
March - some of it winter, some of it autumn.
April - autumn.
May - first half was autumn, second half was spring.
June - first few days were spring, the reaminder of the month was summer.
July - autumn.
August so far - autumn.

So this year, we had our summer in June. 

[Don]

18 hours ago, Summer of 95 said:

Somebody must have told you by now, they start drawing in after the Shrewsbury flower show  

Nah, all they tell me is it doesn't snow much!!  

[Don]

Sunset before 9pm tonight.

[Earthshine]

It's been particularly cruel this year that the longest daylight hours have felt so dark.  I can deal with garbage from the Atlantic in Autumn, Winter and even Spring but July is where I draw the line.  Sunny spells can still feel brilliant but we are rapidly losing daylight hours and it feels bittersweet.  Always next year!

[Dark Horse]

2 minutes ago, Earthshine said:

It's been particularly cruel this year that the longest daylight hours have felt so dark.  I can deal with garbage from the Atlantic in Autumn, Winter and even Spring but July is where I draw the line.  Sunny spells can still feel brilliant but we are rapidly losing daylight hours and it feels bittersweet.  Always next year!

Where was you in June? It was a sunny month here. Plenty of daylight.

[Earthshine]

1 hour ago, Dark Horse said:

Where was you in June? It was a sunny month here. Plenty of daylight.

Not in the UK!  Just my luck I miss out on the hottest June on record.  I definitely need to move abroad as soon as I can.

[Don]

7 minutes ago, Earthshine said:

Not in the UK!  Just my luck I miss out on the hottest June on record.  I definitely need to move abroad as soon as I can.

We will always get the odd rogue summer, even in a warming climate!  Very likely there will be plenty more decent summers than poor in future!

[lassie23]

Darkness sucks

[Scuba steve]

2 minutes ago, lassie23 said:

Darkness sucks

Like a queen of darkness heading into a black hole of misery

[damianslaw]

About a week to go before those first stirrings of late summer approaching. However, this year it feels we are about 3 weeks on from where we should be given how dull most evenings have been. Only a handful of evenings at best since solstice with a warm lingering twilight. 

We are fast losing the battle, indeed its lost I feel for another year.

[Don]

21 hours ago, Weather Enthusiast91 said:

It has already started to become noticeable over here and I am finding that I am having to close my curtains earlier when I have gotten used to closing them at around 9:30pm. It's still very gradual though and once we get to mid August it really starts to speed up.

I have actually noticed it a little the last couple of evenings for the first time and yes, once pass mid month, it will be a rapid process!