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It's all uphill from here. :daydreaming:
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Hic sunt dracones
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Days are getting longer starting tomorrow!

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AndyinPA wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:41 pm Days are getting longer starting tomorrow!

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Suranis wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 7:46 am
We've been there, it's very cool! :thumbsup:
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I know it's a day late, but....

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I hope anyone who celebrates he Solstice has a blessed one this year!! Welcome back to the Sun!
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 ! Message from: Foggy
Merged with the Solstice thread.
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Thanks, Foggy! I hadn't seen the other thread yet ;)
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I try never to miss an astronomicable event, like solstices and equinoxes and such like.

As an agnostic, these are more important to me than religious holidays. I celebrate the existence of the Universe and all that lies therein.

Where did it all come from? I dunno. :shrug:
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The old year has died, the New Year is reborn, the light and warmth return, at least I hope. Happy Solstice all.
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Foggy wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 9:34 am I try never to miss an astronomicable event, like solstices and equinoxes and such like.

As an agnostic, these are more important to me than religious holidays. I celebrate the existence of the Universe and all that lies therein.

Where did it all come from? I dunno. :shrug:
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I was behind a car, on the solstice, that had a sticker that said, "Blessed Be." I think that's the first time I'd ever seen that.
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AndyinPA wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:41 pm Days are getting longer starting tomorrow!

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I don't know what I'm going to do with that extra minute and a half of sunlight.
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noblepa wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:29 am
AndyinPA wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:41 pm Days are getting longer starting tomorrow!

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I don't know what I'm going to do with that extra minute and a half of sunlight.
True for me, too! But I've always noticed it day by day as it changes. Also, depends on where you are. We were in Alaska one year in February. They were gaining something like eight minutes a day. We were there a week and the days were noticeably longer when we left than the week before when we arrived.
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People moving up to Oregon from CA comment about the noticeably longer Summer days.
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noblepa wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 11:29 am
AndyinPA wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:41 pm Days are getting longer starting tomorrow!

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I don't know what I'm going to do with that extra minute and a half of sunlight.
I do. Each extra minute of sunlight is going to generate a little bit extra electricity. You can see the decrease on the tail end before the solstice. Those stepped-down bars were sunny days; the shorter bars were cloudy and rainy.
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Oh boy! You guys are moving from maybenaut to matbeso. Soon you'll be part of Big Solar.
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I hate the early sunsets.

When we change time in November, we go from a 5:54pm sunset to a 4:52pm sunset the next day and the shortened days seem to last forever. We have four solid weeks where the sunset is between 4:31pm and 4:35pm. Tomorrow is the last 4:35pm sunset and by Jan 17 - less than 4 weeks from now - we are back up to a 5pm sunset. Psychologically that just makes a big difference to me.

(I know I shouldn't complain too much. For my sister in Seattle, the sunset gets as early as 4:17pm. :cry: )
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It's all uphill more Sun from here on out.
Out from under. :thumbsup:
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4:48 PM EDT!

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Foggy wrote: Wed Dec 21, 2022 2:42 pm It's all uphill more Sun from here on out.
Oh yeah!

We pick up two seconds of daylight tomorrow. By month end, it is up to 30 seconds. We're at 35°50' here in Raisinville.
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here, today is one second shorter than yesterday.

Solstice where I am is at 4:47:58 PM

Things are looking up ;)
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Dark! So dark! ;)
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NOW can I start complaining about the cold?

Now that winter is officially starting? Real, actual winter?


Edit: Oh, crap. My staff informs me that no, I can never complain about the cold in North Freakin' Carolina, because I'm a big baby. They're saying I lived through the winter of '76-'77 in Burlington, Vermont, and I can just buck up, bucko. :roll:
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