Days getting shorter now

Sunset Chill

All downhill from here.

murpho999

Tomorrow is the longest day.

dashoonage

FAIL.

gramar

Sunset Chill wrote: »

All downhill from here.

This phrase always confuses me. Does it mean things will get better or worse?

XrayGolf

The summer solstice for the Northern Hemisphere will be at 05:24 (Irish Time) on Wednesday, 21 June 2017.

Ubbquittious

Yep.

The fun is nearly over now despite the warm snap having just started. Winter is upon us. Kids back to school, halloween & Christmas around the corner. Soon it will be dark at 5 O'clock.

frag420

Sunset Chill wrote: »

All downhill from here.

Jaysus I must bring in the hay so....

whoopsadoodles

gramar wrote: »

This phrase always confuses me. Does it mean things will get better or worse?

You make a good point.

If I was in a race, and was told "it's all downhill from here" I'd be feckin delighted.

Wanderer78

whoopsadoodles wrote:

If I was in a race, and was told "it's all downhill from here" I'd be feckin delighted.

On a mountain bike, downhill is lots of fun!

skeleton_boy

Hector Savage

Always found it amazing that sun position wise the sun is as strong as it is on April 21st as it is August 21st ...

Daledge

What a grim outlook. We're only halfway through summer, lighten up.

namloc1980

Hector Savage wrote: »

Always found it amazing that sun position wise the sun is as strong as it is on April 21st as it is August 21st ...

The sun is about the same all the time. It's output varies by about 0.1% at most.

Burial.

Days are still 24 hours long. Go away with your hippy sunlight bullsh*t.

Gunslinger92

Feck you OP :pac: still loads upon loads of long days left!

Maximus Alexander

Daledge wrote: »

What a grim outlook. We're only halfway through summer, lighten up.

Not even close. We're 3 weeks in; a quarter of the way through and the two hottest months are still ahead of us.

Cina

As of today, we're only ~5bn years away from our sun becoming a supernova and engulfing the entire solar system.

Depressing times ahead lads.

murpho999

Daledge wrote: »

What a grim outlook. We're only halfway through summer, lighten up.

Some people would argue that summer only begins tomorrow.

Either way , it began on June 1st so we're not half way through yet. Don't mind the pagan midsummer stuff.

RollieFingers

Summer is May, June and July? So more than half way through

RollieFingers

RollieFingers wrote: »

Summer is May, June and July? So more than half way through

Climatically it's not.

Also the 24th is the latest sunset so we have a few more days really.

evil_seed

Ya big eejit OP

Hector Savage

namloc1980 wrote: »

The sun is about the same all the time. It's output varies by about 0.1% at most.

Sorry I meant Earths position and so daylight time and strength of the sun due to the angle light is falling ...

Cee-Jay-Cee

Cina wrote: »

As of today, we're only ~5bn years away from our sun becoming a supernova and engulfing the entire solar system.

Depressing times ahead lads.

Sh?t! I'm taking that day off work, no point going in when its all going to end in a ball of flames.

murpho999

RollieFingers wrote: »

Summer is May, June and July? So more than half way through

So kids on Summer Holidays in August are actually on Autumn holidays?

Why is August peak summer holiday season?

May is Spring and Summer is June, July and August and can overlap either side.

Irishweather

Not particularly. First 10pm sunset is Mid July for me, so I have at least a month of very long days left.

topper75

Sunset Chill wrote: »

All downhill from here.

So - just to confirm:

These are the very days where we are as far as we can possibly get from the misery of dark winter evenings in Ireland? Right?

What is your complaint again?

Birneybau

Sunset Chill wrote: »

All downhill from here.

You really made that second post count.

The One Doctor

Cina wrote: »

As of today, we're only ~5bn years away from our sun becoming a supernova and engulfing the entire solar system.

Depressing times ahead lads.

It won't be a supernova. The sun's not big enough for that. It'll be a red giant. We'll be swallowed by the sun, not blown to atoms.

And that's 7bn years away. Much more time.

Still, it's cool to think that everything, EVERYTHING on Earth with be inside the sun.

Ubbquittious

The One Doctor wrote: »

It won't be a supernova. The sun's not big enough for that. It'll be a red giant. We'll be swallowed by the sun, not blown to atoms.

And that's 7bn years away. Much more time.

Still, it's cool to think that everything, EVERYTHING on Earth with be inside the sun.

Only Elon Musk can save our species from certain DOOOM!

wakka12

Good, i dont like when its bright at 11pm tbh. April/early may and then early september has the nicest evening lighting, fully bright til about 6/7, then nice dimmer stretch with pink/orange skies until about 9pm

Cina

The One Doctor wrote: »

It won't be a supernova. The sun's not big enough for that. It'll be a red giant. We'll be swallowed by the sun, not blown to atoms.

And that's 7bn years away. Much more time.

Still, it's cool to think that everything, EVERYTHING on Earth with be inside the sun.

Yeah...well...whatever! Yer ma' is already a red giant!

super_furry

It's the getting bright at 4am part that I have a problem with. Fecking pain in the arse if you're a light sleeper.

CeilingFly

murpho999 wrote: »

Tomorrow is the longest day.

Varies from year to year - 20th / 21st / 22nd.

This year it is tomorrow - by ONE SECOND!

Daylight today = 17 hours 7 seconds
Daylight tomorrow = 17 hours 8 seconds
22nd = 17 hours 3 seconds

Make the most of that second.

In 2020, June 20th will be longest day

wingbacknr5

The ould evenings are bet.

Cee-Jay-Cee

The One Doctor wrote: »

It won't be a supernova. The sun's not big enough for that. It'll be a red giant. We'll be swallowed by the sun, not blown to atoms.

And that's 7bn years away. Much more time.

Still, it's cool to think that everything, EVERYTHING on Earth with be inside the sun.

Air conditioning companies are going to make a mint when that happens...and ice cream sellers.

Glenster

CeilingFly wrote: »

Varies from year to year - 20th / 21st / 22nd.

This year it is tomorrow - by ONE SECOND!

Daylight today = 17 hours 7 seconds
Daylight tomorrow = 17 hours 8 seconds
22nd = 17 hours 3 seconds

Make the most of that second.

In 2020, June 20th will be longest day

You seem like fun.

whoopsadoodles

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Air conditioning companies are going to make a mint when that happens...and ice cream sellers.

Will the ice cream sellers be making mint too?

LadyMacBeth_

I comfort myself with the fact that the days will be getting shorter after the 21st of June. I prefer the darkness, and winter, and being wrapped up in a coat, hidden away from the world.

Ipso

Build a wicker man in time for Lughnasa, it might appease the sun.

Water John

Well if you live down in Cork/Kerry you can cheat. Sunshine is about 40 mins longer in Donegal, midsummer. Sunrise is at 4.50, compared to 5.14 in Cork/Kerry. Sunset is 9.57 compared to 10.13
The Cork/Kerryman can keep daylight at the same length by moving northwards. I think it is 30 miles per day.

ToddyDoody

People are a lot easier to handle when they're depressed.

Mutant z

True once the longest day passes, the days start to get gradually shorter until the shortest day of the year December 21st and then they start getting longer again.

PARlance

Mutant z wrote: »

True once the longest day passes, the days start to get gradually shorter until the shortest day of the year December 21st and then they start getting longer again.

The circle of life, as they say.

Chocolate fiend

Of course those of us who travelled further afield are in the middle of the shortest day and it's all getting better and brighter from here on!

Neon_Lights

I'm heading off to Oz this winter so feck you all I get two summers muahahaha