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Here comes the sun 🌞🌞

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Whitewavemark2 Thu 12-Dec-24 22:23:47

Cheering bit of knowledge.

Today is the earliest that the sun will set.

From now onwards it will gradually set later.

Sun rise will none the less continue on it laggardly morning rise until near the end of December, after which it gives itself a shake and appears earlier and earlier. So we are nearly through the darkest time.

Marydoll Thu 12-Dec-24 23:15:45

Not if you live in Glasgow, where we have had three days of freezing fog. wink I couldn't see in front of me, never mind the sky.

RosiesMaw2 Thu 12-Dec-24 23:44:28

Marydoll 🀣🀣🀣

Granmarderby10 Thu 12-Dec-24 23:44:31

Yay!πŸ₯³

Shelflife Thu 12-Dec-24 23:55:30

Good news indeed. I look forward to lighter mornings - I need daylight!

Granmarderby10 Fri 13-Dec-24 00:01:44

I have no idea why but for something like the last 15 years after the clocks go back, I have felt a kind of impending doom that increases with the lengthening nights. Come January I begin to lift mentally.
The equinox never bothered me so much before and the weather has been relatively mild so far this year compared to some wicked winters I can recall.

nanna8 Fri 13-Dec-24 04:10:26

I used to detest the winter in the uk, wet and cold and depressing. I think I must have had that winter weather syndrome. One of the reasons we upped and left 50 odd years ago now. That and the horrible Ted Heath man.

Granmarderby10 Sat 14-Dec-24 10:42:42

nanna8 - β€œthe horrible Ted Heath man” ! Wow well at that time I was still in the classroom at primary school, glueing and glittering to my hearts content, even found the power cuts oddly enjoyable!
Ted Heath would seem a well balanced and steady influence when compared to the more recent bunch.

JamesandJon33 Sat 14-Dec-24 10:53:43

Well it’s an absolutely beautiful sunny day here in SW Wales and I’m glad that the sun will be set a little later. Roll on spring. Though I do have two daffodils in the garden .