Friday 22 December 2006

Shortest day


Dec 22nd. Up here in the Northen Hemisphere it is the Shortest Day, or as the French like everyone to believe, the Longest Night. This morning the sun came up at 08:13 and will go down at 16:08. That's 7 hours 55 mins of day, pretty short but not to worry, for the next 6 months the days will get longer until June when we have over 16 hours of day light.

As you can see from the photo we couldn't actually see the sun spring up over the edge of the world, we can't even see the houses on the other side of the valley 200 metres away so what chance have we of seeing the sun 148 million kilometres away? And to all those people stuck in Heathrow as BA cancel domestic flights due to the fog:- GO BY BUS.

3 comments:

Sarah said...

Well, you got a good hour more daylight than I did. Sunrise 0847, sunset 1527 in Aberdeen today.

Anonymous said...

I hope you have some time off over the holidays David. thanks for the blog, I love it. Seasons Greetings.

Martin

Roses said...

Seasons Greetings to you. Hope you have a good Christmas with much food, drink and merriment.