The Sunrise and Sunset Thread

14 Sept

Sunrise: 06:40
Sunset: 19:27

The nights drawing in seems to be made worse by the fact the sun's lower and not as bright during the day anyway.

You should go to San Diego, California this Winter.

Renmark, SA today:

Sunrise: 6:06am
Sunset: 5:58pm

Peak angle: 53.1* @ 12:01pm

rise: 06:44
set: 19:28

Do you sense any noticeable difference from month to month at your latitude blackcat or is it mainly in a couple of months differences in daylight are really noticeable? I mean 34-35N is extremely far south by my standards, yet the ocean makes your place liveable after all

Here you notice from week to week in shoulder seasons with standstills around the solstices as the poles catch up.

As you see here, we have about half of your annual fall of daylight within a month in September alone

www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/nykoping?month=9&year=2017

Basically as you can see here:

www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/nykoping?month=12&year=2017

The daylight range stays within five minutes around the solstice when the polar night is at its most intense farther north when it's in the process or returning. The same procedure happens around the summer solstice, where the otherwise explosive daylight cycle basically does nothing for a couple of weeks except shifting some seconds here and there.

www.timeanddate.com/sun/sweden/nykoping?month=6&year=2017

In fact, sunset times doesn't move earlier than 10 pm DST until 7 July, with the civil twilight only starting to make big jumps at 12 July. It's rather remarkable how little of the light decrease that is noticeable in July because it's a boiling frog thing when you live in the nearest ranges of the polar circle.

Well they are indeed, but for us here such small changes aren't commonplace which is why it feels remarkable not to have the times moving in a mind-measurable direction for a couple of weeks.

Well here it is 31-54-31-8 in that regard. Ariete and Baba have it even worse in that regard though. In Umeå the peak sun at winter solstice is at 3-something degrees if I recall correctly. Turku is a much more manageable 6 degrees. I've lived just south of that latitude and it's noticeable compared to here but not that much. Örebro on the other hand is 50 km north of here solar wise but about seven minutes behind. That results in winter sunsets being the same but quite a bit earlier emergence of daylight before the sunrises in the mornings here.