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Yup. And then another 41 days to climb back out of the hole just to get to where we’re at right now again. Oh boy.
Try living in a place with near-constant sunshine for most of your life. It’s just as bad. At least here there’s SOME variety, which is exactly why the PNW attracts so many of us desert rats.
that’s really profound.
ugh…
I am okay with this. The night time is the right time.
I hate the sun like a naked mole rat. The next couple of months are my favorite time of year.
“-and then the days start getting longer again” … A day is a unit of time, commonly defined as an interval equal to 24 hours. Oh, did I mention I’m a smartass?
Nearly all of the days on earth are practically the same length, but there is one day each year which is shorter, and another which equally longer. Anyone know what these days are? /trivia
I cried today for no reason.
@ 7, “day” meant “when the sun is up” for a hell of a lot longer than it meant “24 hour period.” That’s not actually a “day,” that’s a “mean solar day.”
If you’re going to nerd it up, you should know what you’re talking about.
@7: I thought you at least had to be smart in order to qualify as a smartass.
Oh, @7’s a little smarter than you think. Those would be the days at apogee and perigee, which are, surprisingly, not the same days as the solstices. Pretty close, though.
Perihelion and Aphelion, each about 2 weeks after the solstices (January 5 and July 5th next year). Much harder to market than the solstices though.
I wouldn’t mind this time of year near as much if it didn’t mean driving to and from work in the dark. Working is a waste of perfectly good sunlight.
If you’re more bothered by early sunset than late sunrise, the good news is that the sunsets start getting later again on Dec. 17, a couple of days before the winter solstice. The sunrises, though, don’t start getting earlier until the end of the calendar year.
http://www.pacificsciencecenter.org/sunr…
but the mist off the sound towards bremerton turned golden at sunset. it was mystical.
8
its because you’ve wasted you life rushing down an emotional dead end of deviant perversion.
you need a woman….
gee only 81 days of this dark crap. out of 365. hey it’s not too bad. hey i like the rain. hey sunshine in other places, how awful, yuck.
it’s the combination of the darkness with the damp drizzles the constant presence of water in puddles or spongelike ground, and the low cloud cover that gives us the actual amount of light you have in say, Juneau Alaska much of the year, combined with the constant social pressure to say “hey it’s not so bad!” or “I like the rain” when in fact no, you don’t see anyone taking a trip to the shores of nome alaska to enjoy even DARKER winter or going out to sit in the rain in their lounge chairs; everyone hwho says they like it if they get rich immediately buys a second home in arizona sun valley or hawaii, being normal humans after all.
@2
FAIL. WRONG. WHAT ARE YOU SMOKIN?
Agree with #17 … been there, loved it, plan to go back as soon as I’m healthy again. Tucson FTW.