Breaking news. the days are getting longer by a minute EVERY day now.

Spanish Eyes

I'm just sitting in the kitchen with a nice cup of coffee and cake.

Looking out the window.... it is quarter to five and it is still bright. (ish)

I absolutely love the days after 21/22 December (ongoing debate on the actual date lol). when the days get longer by 1 minute per day.

Happy New Year. We are on the up now.

The Winter darkness is so much shorter than the Summer light is IMV.

But anyway. Onwards and upwards.

Mint Sauce

There's a grand wee stretch in the evenings alright.

The Raptor

It's great isn't it. It's still cold though.

The_Valeyard

Pity that App 'breakingnews' got shut down alright.

snubbleste

Just a minute a day??
So, there are ~183 days between 21 Dec and 21 June..If the sun sets at 16:25 on 21 Dec, then it is to set at 19:28 on 21 June, right

wandatowell

I think sunset eh flatlined around December 16th, been slowly going back up again since.

r93kaey5p2izun

I love dark evenings so I'm sad that stretch has begun. Nothing I enjoy is enhanced by brighter evenings and it means an increase in antisocial behaviour where I live.

wandatowell

snubbleste wrote: »

Just a minute a day??
So, there are ~183 days between 21 Dec and 21 June..If the sun sets at 16:25 on 21 Dec, then it is to set at 19:28 on 21 June, right

Its can be a minute or 2 everyday.

snubbleste

wandatowell wrote: »

Its can be a minute or 2 everyday.

But the OP sez "a minute"

Beasty

Christ - knew New Year's Eve was a second longer, but didn't realise it was part of a wider pattern.....


:pac:

Peregrine

The sunset itself becomes later after around the 12th of December. The mornings become earlier from around the 30th of December. The net daylight duration increases after the 21st of December or whichever day the winter solstice is that year.

snubbleste wrote: »

Just a minute a day??
So, there are ~183 days between 21 Dec and 21 June..If the sun sets at 16:25 on 21 Dec, then it is to set at 19:28 on 21 June, right

It's not a linear increase. The net daylight length starts off increasing by just a few seconds everyday and maxes out at over 4 mins a day around March. I think it gradually goes back down to a few seconds a day until the summer solstice. The sunset will be at around 22:00 by 21st of June.

snubbleste

Peregrine wrote: »

...
It's not a linear increase. The net daylight length starts off increasing by just a few seconds everyday and maxes out at over 4 mins a day around March. I think it gradually goes back down to a few seconds a day until the summer solstice.

But the OP saaaaaaid!

Spanish Eyes

snubbleste wrote: »

But the OP saaaaaaid!

Relax in your tracks right now love!

The Weather app ( which to my mind has been SO accurate so far...) Has sunrise a minute later every day now. I HAVE been watching it!

Does it matter anyway, as long as it is going in the right direction!

Wesser

Lovely moon from my window

Peregrine

Wesser wrote: »

Lovely moon from my window

Sorry about that..

wandatowell

snubbleste wrote: »

But the OP sez "a minute"

OP be trippin'

Spanish Eyes

I think we should count it down now.

By 31st Jan it will be sunset much later than now. Happy Days!

Would someone else do the countdown for me please?

But anyway it's all in the brightness direction!

Spanish Eyes

wandatowell wrote: »

OP be trippin'

WTF? lol.

snubbleste

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I think we should count it down now.
By 31st Jan it will be sunset much later than now. Happy Days!
..

Not if you're in the southern hemisphere.

Spanish Eyes

snubbleste wrote: »

Not if you're in the southern hemisphere.

But we are not there. So what's your sunset point in Ireland now?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

snubbleste wrote: »

But the OP sez "a minute"

It's roughly 10 minutes per week. Until the hour changes of course.

Spanish Eyes

OH what did I start?

It is getting brighter every day. Enjoy....

LOL

snubbleste

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

OH what did I start?
It is getting brighter every day. Enjoy....
LOL

That is offensive to the visually impaired!

Yourself isit

wandatowell wrote: »

I think sunset eh flatlined around December 16th, been slowly going back up again since.

Yes. Around Dec 14th.

Yourself isit

snubbleste wrote: »

But the OP saaaaaaid!

The op said it's a minute a day now but that speeds up around the equinox.

Yourself isit

Thatcher Abundant Bow wrote: »

It's roughly 10 minutes per week. Until the hour changes of course.

Its about 30 minutes a week in March.

See here

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ireland/dublin

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

All praise to the sun God.

Spanish Eyes

Yourself isit wrote: »

The op said it's a minute a day now but that speeds up around the equinox.

So when is the Equinox you mention, i.e. when everything speeds up?

Yourself isit

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

So when is the Equinox you mention, i.e. when everything speeds up?

I give up. March 21st.

I should have said that the difference in the length of day from the previous day increases until the 21 March. Then the difference decreases but the days continue to get longer until the summer solstice. Then it reverses slowly then quickly.

It's in the link. Above.

Harry Palmr

I just greet every dry and bright day as one day less that winter can have. If we keep this up it'll all be over without having started really.

Barry Badrinath

Its getting brighter in the evenings is it?

Fcuk sake

Spanish Eyes

Yourself isit wrote: »

I give up

Ah don't give up. It is just banter. AFTER HOURS after all.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Yourself isit wrote: »

Its about 30 minutes a week in March.

See here

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/ireland/dublin

And perhaps you should look at it again. The stretch in the evening maxs out at 14 minutes per week in March.

Spanish Eyes

Yourself isit wrote: »

I give up. March 21st.

I should have said that the difference in the length of day from the previous day increases until the 21 March. Then the difference decreases but the days continue to get longer until the summer solstice. Then it reverses slowly then quickly.

It's in the link. Above.

LOL,

It is what we see and observe from our own windows really.

Seems to me that the Winter darkness is so much shorter than the Summer sunlight. But anyway I stand to be corrected on that. But TBH there is much more daylight after the Winter Solstice, so there.

And it is so much more uplifting than the Winter solstice, if there is such a thing, but you know what I mean, dark days and nights when the clocks go back for ages.

Yourself isit

Thatcher Abundant Bow wrote: »

And perhaps you should look at it again. The stretch in the evening maxs out at 14 minutes per week in March.

That's not what we were talking about. You said the days increase by 10 minutes.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Yourself isit wrote: »

That's not what we were talking about. You said the days increase by 10 minutes.

Who's this we paleface.

Cross purposes.

I was replying to comments on the stretch in the evening, not the overall length of day. But no big deal.

Yourself isit

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

LOL,

It is what we see and observe from our own windows really.

There's a science to this too.

Seems to me that the Winter darkness is so much shorter than the Summer sunlight. But anyway I stand to be corrected on that. But TBH there is much more daylight after the Winter Solstice, so there.

And it is so much more uplifting than the Winter solstice, if there is such a thing, but you know what I mean, dark days and nights when the clocks go back for ages.

Yes there is a reason to think that the days are longer than they seem in summer. Twilight is longer.

Yourself isit

Thatcher Abundant Bow wrote: »

Who's this we paleface.

Cross purposes.

I was replying to comments on the stretch in the evening, not the overall length of day. But no big deal.

Except the stretch in the evenings isn't 10 minutes a week at the moment. It's five.

I personally wouldn't notice this stretch - except that I did metrology as part of a science degree - until the end of Jan. It does depend on the weather though. Sometime in late Jan or early Feb on a sunny day every year I notice that its bright enough to not turn lights on the bike at 5pm. For a few minutes at least.

Fun fact. In June and July Ireland never leaves twlight. It's never night time.

Spanish Eyes

So. Leaving aside the scientific versions is it fair to say that it is great that sunset is one minute (open to debate lol) later every day since the Winter Solstice.

Well I can see it every day.

And I love it too. Moreso than the other downwinding to darkness at 4pm at around Halloween anyway.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Yourself isit wrote: »

Except the stretch in the evenings isn't 10 minutes a week at the moment. It's five.

I personally wouldn't notice this stretch - except that I did metrology as part of a science degree - until the end of Jan. It does depend on the weather though. Sometime in late Jan or early Feb on a sunny day every year I notice that its bright enough to not turn lights on the bike at 5pm. For a few minutes at least.

Fun fact. In June and July Ireland never leaves twlight. It's never night time.

Oh sweet Lord, let me out of here.

2nd Jan 16.19
9th Jan 16.28


I'm done. :rolleyes:

BorneTobyWilde

Pretty sure there are 24 hours in everyday and that they are not getting longer by a minute each day.

longshanks

Have a look @theauldsthretch on Twitter.
Todays stretch was 12 minutes and 20 seconds apparently.

wandatowell

Thatcher Abundant Bow wrote: »

Oh sweet Lord, let me out of here.

2nd Jan 16.19
9th Jan 16.28


I'm done. :rolleyes:

*drops mic

jiltloop

Mint Sauce wrote: »

There's a grand wee stretch in the evenings alright.

I would downgrade that to a grand wee stretch in the afternoon for the moment I think.

dd972

No sh*t OP!? Guess what, tomorrows going to be a Tuesday, welcome to planet Earth. :P

_Jamie_

The beauty of the inevitable changing of seasons never ceases to fascinate me, year on year.

runnerholic

Can't we just agree that it's not getting late as early as it was.

4068ac1elhodqr

I've a large panoramic convex reflector across the back of the SW facing garden, so when the sun's out it's actually 161.8%(c) more sun for all those extra minutes.

Capt'n Midnight

TBH the brightness in the evenings has more to do with clouds than anything. A cloudless night will give you a good half hour of brightness more.

It's not just the length of the day. The equation of time is used to tell the how much the day itself shifts during the year.

Calahonda52

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

TBH the brightness in the evenings has more to do with clouds than anything. A cloudless night will give you a good half hour of brightness more.

It's not just the length of the day. The equation of time is used to tell the how much the day itself shifts during the year.

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