Re: BC: Short Days

On 12/14/2024 1:16 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 12/13/2024 3:27 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

BC: Short Days
    https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2024/12/13
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I hate the short days also.
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Lynn
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As of now sunsets are getting later.
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William Hyde

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Are you sure about that ?  Maybe for your longitude but not mine ???
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Here, tomorrow's daylight will be 19 seconds shorter than today.

 True, but sunsets will come later.
  Sunset in Houston (https://sunrise-sunset.org/us/houston-tx)
 Dec 14 5:25:15 pm
 Dec 15 5:25:36 pm
 Rejoice in your extra 21 seconds in  the afternoon (who cares about morning?).
    This

does not change until the winter solstice on Dec 21.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_solstice

 In the run-up to winter solstice in our hemisphere sunsets start to get later in early december.  The days still get shorter because dawn comes later.
 Dawn will not start coming earlier until circa Jan 11 for Houston.
 If the earth's orbit was circular we wouldn't have these issues.
 William Hyde

Gotcha on the dawn and sunset both getting later in the day right now. If I knew that, I had forgotten it.
I blame the Moon for the Earth's non-circular orbit.
Lynn