Department of duh: Who loves the sun?
I left the office yesterday and was so astounded. Not only was it not raining, but it was actually still light out. Ah, yes, it has been over a month since the winter solstice. So, I went to the US Naval Observatory site (I typed navel observatory more than once. Heh.) just for official stats on how quickly our light was returning. The news is heartening. Soon we can come out of our caves!
Naval (still heh) data after the jump.
Last month:
24 December 2005
Begin civil twilight 7:20 a.m.
Sunrise 7:56 a.m.
Sunset 4:22 p.m.
End civil twilight 4:58 p.m.
Today:
24 January 2006
Begin civil twilight 7:11 a.m.
Sunrise 7:45 a.m.
Sunset 4:58 p.m.
End civil twilight 5:32 p.m.
Next month, watch out:
24 February 2006
Begin civil twilight 6:28 a.m.
Sunrise 6:59 a.m.
Sunset 5:47 p.m.
End civil twilight 6:18 p.m.
I like Weather Underground’s daylight reports: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=98112
of particular interest is the tidbit that tomorrow will be 2m 34s longer. Awesome.
That is a neat site.
Yay for the Sun! Boo for the “mid-morning developing rain.”