The shortest light-day of the year was 8:25:33 on the solstice, 12/21. Christmas will be 40 seconds longer than
that. By the end of the on 12/31, daylight
will be well over 4 minutes longer at 8:29:48!
The earth’s elleptical orbit around the sun works out so that we are
closer to the sun during the winters and further away during the summers in the
Northern Hemisphere. That makes for both
milder winters and summers.
This year has been the warmest year on record in Seattle with an
average temperature of just over 55° F.
I am grateful for relatively mild warmer weather with longer days.
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