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jack two
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The new improved Jack Holloway v.2
Solstace - what are your times?20 Jun '08 9:24 pm
Midwinter vs midsummer... although the seasons are far from midway, the sun is turning in its path. I've never quite understood that one. Delayed reactions on the part of Mother Earth? Nor why, although the days start to stretch, the sun continues to come up later for a few days... delayed reactions again? 
It would be interesting to see different people's times.
Here are the official sunrise and sunset times on 22 June where I am, some 50km outside (south) of the Tropic of Capricorn:
6.41am to 17.21am.
Day length: 10 hours 40 minutes
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Kerole
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Taupaki, New Zealand
Winter Solstice...20 Jun '08 9:47 pm
Here are the times for Auckland, NZ.
Sunrise: 7:33 am
Sunset: 5:13 pm |
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MacFlax
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Canberra, Australia
21 Jun '08 12:36 am
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Sunrise 7.12
Sunset 4.58
9 hours 46 minutes
I'm confused though. On this evening's news they mentioned that the solstice is tomorrow, and indeed when I went looking for the details the shortest day is the 21st. On the 22nd the sunrise is the same but sunset is at 4.59. Apparently the solstice is actually at 9.59am, which intrigued the whole family. There was a bit of a debate about whether the solstice is the shortest day or a specific time. We finally decided that we understood what happens at 9.59am but don't ask me to explain it. 
This is the website I used. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=57 |
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fenwillow
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Solstice...21 Jun '08 11:04 am
Hi Everyone,
According to the weatherman this morning, the actual solstice happens sometime today, June 20th, here in British Columbia, Canada. Sunrise this morning was 5:02 Pacific Daylight Time, and sunset will be at 21:16, so that's a long day. Tomorrow will be the first official day of summer. That seems unbelievable since all it's done for months is rain!
Happy Winter to all of you down south, and happy Summer to all of you up north!
Cheers and good gardening,
June |
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moosey
head gardener
22 Jun '08 4:16 pm
For the southerns, I heard that the night between the 21st and the 22nd of June was the longest night, so I sort of imagined a symmetry on day lengths...
Anyway, welcome to the new whatever it is you think you're having! And golly, Jack, that's a much longer shortest day you have than us in NZ and Aus. No wonder your garden is so big - all that more daylight to work in it! Well, you will have, on your retirement. Cheers. |
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jack two
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The new improved Jack Holloway v.2
A wiggle and a wobble and a stat or two24 Jun '08 12:01 am
As I understand it the solstice happens at some exact moment when the earth stops wiggling one way and wobbles the other way. As that is the whole earth, it would mean that the solstice happens at different times in different places. However none of us is sensitive enough to detect that change in motion. (That's the bit that made me doubt my father's sanity when I was four: why couldn't I FEEL the earth move?? In fact, the earth DID move for me when I was quite a bit older  )And so we 'measure' the solstice by changes in the length of the adjacent days and nights, and the first of these four to lengthen/shorten is seen as the solstice in any given place...
How have your temperatures been? I've started recording min/max. Here are some recent stats:
since 21 May when I started, the lowest min. has been -1, the highest 8, ave about 3 degrees. I take my reading at eye level on the terrace at the front door, a roofed area in the lee about 2m above the actual ground level. Outside there has been light frost more often than not, showing that there is at least a 4 degree difference between exposed groundlevel and my thermometer.
The highs have ranged from 11 to 27 degrees, with 22 days at 20 and over. Interestingly enough on 9/6 we recorded 8-11 degrees, a 3 degree swing, a typical scenario when a cold front is preceded by a bergwind, i.e. the hot winds dropping down towards the sea. There was also heavy cloud cover and the cold front must have passed through soon after dawn. Two days earlier we had recorded the biggest swing, namely -1 to 27 degrees - a total of 28 degrees and illustrative of the extremes in day and night temperature we have here which can wreak havoc with some plants that would survive -10 and lower in some climes - and why my camellias are so often disappointing for long stretches at a time. |
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