At 6:04AM 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 2 seconds longer.
This also marks HogWatch, so don’t forget to put out the turnips.
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yay! daylight! more daylight!
Well, 2 seconds isn’t much, but it will be more than we had today, and the weather is supposed to warm up after a cold night tonight.
LOL Well, speaking on behalf of the Southern Hemisphere… We’d rather it didn’t heat up any more. Thank you. 😉 😀
And a happy HogWatch to all! 😀
Chill, we are stealing the 2 seconds from you, and you are helping to raise our temperature above the 0° C it will be overnight on the Gulf Coast.
What? more daylight? It’ll be a cold day in Houston before that happens! Oh, wait… it was a cold day in Houston…
Yes, even on the coast the first day of winter is living up to its billing. From the Left Coast to the Right it’s a frigid mess that will sell a lot of shovels, snow blowers, and plows.