Winter solstice has passed

[Dave2002]

Winter solstice 2018 in Northern Hemisphere was at 22:23 on Friday, 21 December.

So the days will be getting longer, and the nights shorter now!

[Bryn]

Winter solstice 2018 in Northern Hemisphere was at 22:23 on Friday, 21 December.

So the days will be getting longer, and the nights shorter now!

If generally colder, for a while yet.

[Pulcinella]

Winter solstice 2018 in Northern Hemisphere was at 22:23 on Friday, 21 December.

So the days will be getting longer, and the nights shorter now!

But curiously 'asymmetrically' (I'm sure there's a better word) in terms of sunrise and sunset times.

[Bryn]

But curiously 'asymmetrically' (I'm sure there's a better word) in terms of sunrise and sunset times.

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/earth-wobble-mechanics

[Dave2002]

http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/b...bble-mechanics

But is that fake news, or unscientific speculation? This wobble stuff and discussion of Planet X - which seems to be hypothetical - does seem a bit "new age". There might be something in it, but ....

[Bryn]

But is that fake news, or unscientific speculation? This wobble stuff and discussion of Planet X - which seems to be hypothetical - does seem a bit "new age". There might be something in it, but ....

O.K., minus the new age stuff about this Planet X thing, http://hosting.astro.cornell.edu/aca...1/sun_rise.htm .

[vinteuil]

But curiously 'asymmetrically' (I'm sure there's a better word) in terms of sunrise and sunset times.

... yes - sunset has been getting a little later for quite a few days now, well before the solstice - and sunrise goes on getting later for a little while yet, only getting earlier well in to January. I think this has been explored on these boards in some detail in previous year's comments on the solstice.

EDIT - further info here :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30549149

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https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/london?month=12&year=2018

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https://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunset-today-but-not-shortest-day

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[Sir Velo]

Winter solstice 2018 in Northern Hemisphere was at 22:23 on Friday, 21 December.

So the days will be getting longer, and the nights shorter now!

Can we get you on Mastermind? Special subject - the bleeding obvious.

[jayne lee wilson]

Winter solstice 2018 in Northern Hemisphere was at 22:23 on Friday, 21 December.

So the days will be getting longer, and the nights shorter now!

Absolutely.... as a nuit-blanche night owl who still frequently sees in the dawn (with its dense wary flurry of hungry birds) between her two attempted sleeps, I say a silent prayer to the god of light. Winter is like a tunnel, and we have passed the deepest, darkest point...

[Bryn]

Can we get you on Mastermind? Special subject - the bleeding obvious.

Not obvious, as not strictly true. Days are gradually getting longer if one thinks of the nominally 24 hour day.

[cloughie]

Not obvious, as not strictly true. Days are gradually getting longer if one thinks of the nominally 24 hour day.

But not at both ends - mornings still short and evenings longer!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

An earth day is actually 23 hours, 56 min.

[Bryn]

An earth day is actually 23 hours, 56 min.

A little over that, if you mean the sidereal day. However, a solar day on Earth is a little over 24 hours and both, I think you will find, are gradually getting longer.

[LMcD]

I'm just glad that Spring is on its way!

[MrGongGong]

I'm just glad that Spring is on its way!

I like this time of the year,
I like the autumn
I don't "look forward" to the summer in the way that so many seem to
Roll on the bleak snow