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Is it going REALLY dark where you are already?
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HenryGarten
20-06-2016
Originally Posted by Spot:
“Yes of-course, I realised that when I saw your thread after posting my original comment so edited it!

I am more in tune with the winter solstice myself. I guess I'm just a bit too keen to see the darker evenings return. ”

I can understand why people might be more familiar with sunsets around the winter solstice as the changes encompass a much greater range at the winter solstice, from about December 13 to January 1st
Steffan_Leach
20-06-2016
Doesn't feel like any time at all since we were discussing the Winter Solstice on this exact same thread!

Certainely doesn't feel like 6 months ago... Time goes fast..
leicslad46
20-06-2016
I have read that we are in limbo for at least two weeks before there is any real change in the days getting shorter. Less than an hour to go,2334 BST, til the solstice then the sun starts the southward trend again
scruffpot
21-06-2016
It will be very dark soon where I am...
I'm currently on an intercity bus in New Zealand somewhere near Ashburton on route to Christchurch...and it's 17:11 pm ...
Glawster2002
21-06-2016
Originally Posted by leicslad46:
“I have read that we are in limbo for at least two weeks before there is any real change in the days getting shorter. Less than an hour to go,2334 BST, til the solstice then the sun starts the southward trend again”

The rear of our house faces west and because there was no cloud last night it was still light @ 21:45. It occurred to me whilst looking out of the window that when we get to the August bank holiday weekend, which is only nine weeks away, it will be dark by 20:00.
mintbro
21-06-2016
Originally Posted by Glawster2002:
“The rear of our house faces west and because there was no cloud last night it was still light @ 21:45. It occurred to me whilst looking out of the window that when we get to the August bank holiday weekend, which is only nine weeks away, it will be dark by 20:00. ”

It's such a depressing thought. I don't see what there is to celebrate about the longest day, the thought of the days getting darker is not my idea of something I'd want to celebrate. The clocks going back in October is another depressing time of the year, it getting dark anytime before 6pm is horrible.
jazzydrury3
21-06-2016
My dad has always said back in the 60's come the summer sometimes it would be daylight till around 11pm, surely that can't be true.

He has always said summers these days, we don't get the light evenings
HenryGarten
21-06-2016
Originally Posted by jazzydrury3:
“My dad has always said back in the 60's come the summer sometimes it would be daylight till around 11pm, surely that can't be true.

He has always said summers these days, we don't get the light evenings”

It really depends where you are. If you are up in Shetland it hardly gets dark at all. In places like the western isles and the west of Ireland it is light very late.

There should be no difference in the amount of light in the evenings except during WWII when they had double summer time which was known by some as "mad time"
Mr Dos
21-06-2016
IIRC there was a time of year-round GMT +1 in 1968 or thereabouts. The joke du jour was 'when do you want your kids run down - on the way to school, or coming home'.

It was the 60's and my memory is a bit hazy . . .
HenryGarten
21-06-2016
Originally Posted by Mr Dos:
“IIRC there was a time of year-round GMT +1 in 1968 or thereabouts. The joke du jour was 'when do you want your kids run down - on the way to school, or coming home'.

It was the 60's and my memory is a bit hazy . . .”

That was 1968 to 1971 but would not affect the evenings in summer only winter.
Steffan_Leach
21-06-2016
Originally Posted by scruffpot:
“It will be very dark soon where I am...
I'm currently on an intercity bus in New Zealand somewhere near Ashburton on route to Christchurch...and it's 17:11 pm ...”

Well it will be the Winter Solstice there now and in the UK it would certainely be pitch black by that time on thge Solstice not just starting to go dark!
HenryGarten
21-06-2016
Sunrise/Sunset in Christchurch in June
Glawster2002
22-06-2016
Originally Posted by mintbro:
“It's such a depressing thought. I don't see what there is to celebrate about the longest day, the thought of the days getting darker is not my idea of something I'd want to celebrate. The clocks going back in October is another depressing time of the year, it getting dark anytime before 6pm is horrible.”

I serve at a charity beer festival every August Bank holiday weekend, I have done for the last 30 years or so, and the generators being fired up for the outside lighting @ 19:30 is something that always sticks in my mind as a point of reference.
Big brother tv
23-06-2016
Originally Posted by Steffan_Leach:
“So, the longest day of the year has finally arrived..

My sunrise is 04:37am and sunset is 21:44pm.

What's yours?”

10:13pm today..
Big brother tv
23-06-2016
Originally Posted by Glawster2002:
“The rear of our house faces west and because there was no cloud last night it was still light @ 21:45. It occurred to me whilst looking out of the window that when we get to the August bank holiday weekend, which is only nine weeks away, it will be dark by 20:00. ”

That's quite early, it's pretty much daylight to 11pm here.
Big brother tv
23-06-2016
Originally Posted by jazzydrury3:
“My dad has always said back in the 60's come the summer sometimes it would be daylight till around 11pm, surely that can't be true.

He has always said summers these days, we don't get the light evenings”

Yes, it is bright here till 11pm.
Steffan_Leach
23-06-2016
10:30pm and dusk is falling here now, this is the latest time it will get dark here, before the nights start drawing in again. It's still just about light enough that you could walk down an unlit path without torchlight, without bumping into a lampost, or cut the grass and still just be able to make out where you'd been.
Steffan_Leach
25-06-2016
Watching Glastoberry on the telly at the moment, still light there as well as here.
Big brother tv
25-06-2016
Cloud has quite an impact I notice.
Steffan_Leach
25-06-2016
Glastonberry tonight

Sunset: 9:30pm
Dusk: 10:15pm
Nightfall: 11:30pm

http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/uk/glastonbury
moonlily
25-06-2016
Originally Posted by Big brother tv:
“Cloud has quite an impact I notice.”

It was dark in Suffolk at 9.30 last night, lighter tonight.
Steffan_Leach
25-06-2016
Me

Sunset: 9:45pm
Dusk: 10:35pm
Nightfall: 12:20pm

http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/uk/clitheroe
jazzydrury3
25-06-2016
Originally Posted by Steffan_Leach:
“Glastonberry tonight

Sunset: 9:30pm
Dusk: 10:15pm
Nightfall: 11:30pm

http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/uk/glastonbury”

Just out of interest, Nightfall, is that when the Sky is at its darkest, after that does it slowly begin to get lighter again.

Say Sunrises at 5am, do we have something simular to Nightfall, couple of hours before sunrise
Steffan_Leach
25-06-2016
The clouds look quite spectacular, though it is starting to get quite dark down there. Whereas it's pretty grey skies here though there aren't any streetlights on yet.
Big brother tv
25-06-2016
Originally Posted by moonlily:
“It was dark in Suffolk at 9.30 last night, lighter tonight.”

It's still bright where I am but significantly duller than it would be if sunny.
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