At 5:03 PM CST the winter solstice occurs marking the longest night of the year. If everyone has been good, the days start getting longer tomorrow. Locally, the sun will rise at 6:39AM and set at 4:50PM for a total of 10 hours and 10 minutes of daylight, but tomorrow will be a whole 1 second longer.
This also marks HogsWatch, so don’t forget to put out the turnips.
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“tomorrow will be a whole 1 second longer.”
YES! MOAR DAYLIGHT!!!1!1!11!!
In a month it will be daylight at 5PM, Oh Joy…
i have to admit, it’s about mid-February or so before I really feel like there’s more actual daylight.
When you only get it a few seconds at a time it is hard to notice. In Fairbanks you saw it fairly quickly, but then you were going from nothing to something obviously different.