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  • Location: Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm-by-day sunny thundery summers , short cold snowy winters.
  • Location: Hampshire
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So darkest day tomorrow, which means that on Sunday we can officially say we are on the road to spring.

As it's a leap year it's a relatively early solstice, though still on the 21st. Wonder if the winter solstice ever falls on the 20th?

Also solar noon now post-12.00 here, but due to weather conditions today the morning was relatively light while the afternoon is already turning distinctly gloomy, less than 90 minutes after solar noon.

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Posted
  • Location: Hampshire
  • Weather Preferences: Warm-by-day sunny thundery summers , short cold snowy winters.
  • Location: Hampshire
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On 16/12/2024 at 23:06, LetItSnow said:

Evenings get longer tomorrow! Sunset was 15:51 today but 15:52 tomorrow.

Remarkable how a relatively short distance can make a big difference to sunset this time of year, particularly for places on a NE-SW axis. You're probably only 70 miles or so NE of me, but our earliest sunset (around the 10th-16th, I think) was 1559, a full 8 mins later.

Cornwall is blessed with sunsets well after 16:00 even in the depths of winter, though I suspect is very much cloudier than the southeast this time of year above all others.

Due to a low horizon where I was yesterday, I saw the sun until 1553 but cloud near the horizon prevented it being visible right up to the point of sunset.

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Posted
  • Location: Huntingdonshire 10 m amsl
  • Location: Huntingdonshire 10 m amsl
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Happy shortest day folks. 

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Posted
  • Location: Nuneaton 300ft
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and heatwave
  • Location: Nuneaton 300ft
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17 seconds more light than 21st. Can't say i've notice yet.

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In June are there as many days betwen the latest sunset and earliest sunrise as there are between the earliest sunset and latest sunrise in December?  It does not seem to get any darker in the evenings until August.  I don't notice it getting darker in the mornings in summer because I get up far too late.

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Posted
  • Location: West Yorkshire
  • Location: West Yorkshire
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First significant benchmark here is first 4pm sunset. Earliest was 3.45 from 8th-17th December. Now at 3.49. The first 4pm sunset is on the 5th January - I'd say that's also about the earliest you can tell the difference in any noticeable way.

I always find the changes around the summer solstice are far less noticeable, simply because the light levels are so high then, that the loss of half an hour here or there makes very little difference.

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Posted
  • Location: Exeter
  • Weather Preferences: Warm and sunny!
  • Location: Exeter
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Visiting family up in Scotland, sunrise at 08:50 and sunset at 15:35.  Six months later and it won't get dark at night!  Looking like snow and cold returns here in January too.

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Posted
  • Location: Manchester
  • Location: Manchester
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Latest sunrise over the next few days and then everything starts to head in the right direction.

The foggy weather doesn't help things though.

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Posted
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
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Tomorrow marks our latest sunrise, its a painfully slow rise earlier, but importantly we hit the low point. In current conditions the days never get light, no wonder we need vitamin D tablets. 

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  • Location: Norwich
  • Weather Preferences: Summer: sunny and 20-25C. Winter: crisp and sunny or snowy
  • Location: Norwich
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Despite the cloud, mist and drizzle here today, it didn't seem quite as dark at 15.45 as 2 weeks ago when we had our earliest sunset!

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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
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If it wasn't for christmas, holiday bookings to warmer sunnier climes in late Dec would probably rival school holidays in August. December in the UK weatherwise is the low point in the year combined with woeful light and sunshine levels. This year its been awful. 

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Posted
  • Location: Wednesbury
  • Weather Preferences: Seasonal weather (i.e nothing that deviates too much from the norm)
  • Location: Wednesbury
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I'm Richard (a 36 year old man with Asperger's). I live in Wednesbury, West Midlands. I've noticed it's getting slightly lighter in the afternoon, but the overall change in daylength since the Winter Solstice is only a few minutes (we've gained several more seconds each day and it's gradually gaining pace). I'm guessing what I'm noticing though has more to do with the rapid change in the equation of time rather than the change in daylength (which is still very minute at the moment). I think I read somewhere that the equation of time changes faster around the winter solstice than it does around the summer solstice? Although I've been a member here for quite some time and follow the posts occasionally, I don't really contribute much. Please feel free to move this to the relevant part of the forum if it's in the wrong thread. If you could also advise me on where it's been moved to I'd be very grateful. 

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Posted
  • Location: Cheshire
  • Location: Cheshire
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20 hours ago, damianslaw said:

Tomorrow marks our latest sunrise, its a painfully slow rise earlier, but importantly we hit the low point. In current conditions the days never get light, no wonder we need vitamin D tablets.

With a clear morning and definite sunrise, it seemed a whole lot lighter this morning than the past few days, with fog and cloud being an issue since Christmas.

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  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
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Hopeful the usual very dark mornings to greet back to work/school in early Jan will this year be eased by plenty of freezing frosty clear mornings, far more palatable and just what is needed at what is the low point of the year for many in terms of winter sunshine deficiency, general illness and low energy/mood. Sunshine is the best medicine at this time of year. 

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  • Location: Pendle, East Lancashire, North West England
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Dry and sunny Summer: Sunny and 18-23°C
  • Location: Pendle, East Lancashire, North West England
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 damianslaw Yes, although people won’t like having to get up in the freezing cold and de-ice the car windscreen in the morning.

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  • Location: Solihull, Midlands. (Formerly DRL)
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine, thunder, hail & heavy snow
  • Location: Solihull, Midlands. (Formerly DRL)
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With it being a pretty clear evening, noticed there was just about a tiny bit of light trying to hold on up to (and just past) 5pm today. More noticeable when looking out towards the West with the paler blues where the sun would have been setting. The dark nights can be cosy, but looking forward to the days of longer daylight a good deal more. Less of a depressive feel to them. 

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Posted
  • Location: Nottingham
  • Location: Nottingham
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Noticing it already. We gained 10 minutes since December 17th

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Posted
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
  • Location: Windermere 120m asl
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The cold clear skies are helping to lengthen out the day in the afternoon.

First week of Jan can be tough for many not helped when dull dark skies prevail.

 

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  • Location: Pendle, East Lancashire, North West England
  • Weather Preferences: Winter: Dry and sunny Summer: Sunny and 18-23°C
  • Location: Pendle, East Lancashire, North West England
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There was still a bit of light in the sky at 5 pm today thanks to clear skies. The first 4 pm sunset today too.

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Posted
  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine and 15-25c
  • Location: Edmonton Alberta(via Chelmsford, Exeter & Calgary)
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today marks the day (for me at least) that we start to gain daylight in the morning as well as the evenings so in this sense we have now fully turned the corner in terms of lengthening daylight

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  • Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands (170m asl)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms, Cold & Snowy
  • Location: Kings Norton, West Midlands (170m asl)
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Yeah noticing it now. I have some LED lights stuck to the back of the TV that turn on automatically at sunset and turn off at sunrise. Turns on around 16.10 now as opposed to 3.50. 

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Posted
  • Location: halifax 125m
  • Weather Preferences: extremes the unusual and interesting facts
  • Location: halifax 125m
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All but 15 mins gained here on an evening,really notice it on a clear day in contrast to the foggy days we had around 12th December.

 

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  • Location: Winchester, Hampshire ~ Southern Central!
  • Location: Winchester, Hampshire ~ Southern Central!
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First noticed it tonight! It was still light at 430! Most odd!

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