Shortest day V longest day
 

For many of us on here its our first shortest day in june:(

I was just wondering how early darkness falls in various states in deep mid winter:confused: It might be of interest to the poms too:D

PS. just to cheer those of us on the darkside up, it gets 2 mins lighter a day as of tomorrow:p :D

PPS. its a chance for you others to be smug and tell us how light it is (and warm) overthere:rolleyes:

Yeah roll on our extra 2 mins of light per day. Its even harder when working nightshift, I only see around 3 hours of daylight per day just now although I remember Winter in Scotland it could start getting dark at 3 to 3.30pm & I'd never see daylight for months.
23 years of working nights & rapidly becoming a vampire.

ps How was the hangover on Sunday morning Hevs ???

Well, it was the longest day in this hemisphere. Then again, I slept through most of it. :rolleyes:

Brisbane today is 06:38 Sunrise and 17:02 sunset

London is 04:42 and 21:20

and for those who really don't like to sleep in the dark Reykjavik (sp?) sunrise is 02:58 and sunset 00:00, i.e 3 hours darkness!

OOOO I hadn't realised that!!!! For some reason it doesn't seem as dark as the shortest day in the UK

Weather Commentary for Thredbo area:

Isolated snow showers persisted on Sunday, but will continue to clear rapidly as the large high over SA moves over the eastern states. This high will result in a spell of sunny weather and frosty nights until Wednesday, when the next front is expected to pass through. A low pressure system crossing Bass Strait may result in moderately low snow levels, but there is not a large amount of precipitation expected. Next weekend is looking clear and dry with light winds and excellent conditions.

Forecast:
Wednesday Light snowfalls developing. 5cm of snow
Thursday Scattered snow showers. 10cm of snow
Friday Light snowfalls clearing. 5cm of snow

:D

Anyone know the sunset and sunrise times for the UK on the shortest day ?

Is there anything OZ V's UK that has not been measured :eek: :eek: :D

What next body parts:D

IQ's would be very interesting:D

Bank balances, at say retirement.

Average net worth.

Moles hang on I think we did that already:rolleyes:

Size of your bathtub, thats new.

One fact I found fascinating was that Poms actually "do it" ;) :D more than Aussies, Belgians won but they were probably bored, fascinating fact was in the OZ Sunday Mail just before I departed.

Just helping with some fresh ideas:D

According to www.sunrisesunset.com, on the shortest day in the UK (21st December), sunset in London is 3.52pm and sunrise is 8.02am.

For London, it's about 08:05 sunrise and about 15:59 sunset (although the sun actually sets a bit earlier than that before the shortest day, because of wobbles in the earth's rotation).

By the time you get as far north as Aberdeen, though, the sun rises at 08:45 or thereabouts and sets at 15:25 or thereabouts.

There's a website that calculates these things, provided you know the latitude etc of the place you are checking for: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

As for Reykjavik - yes, only three hours' between sunset and sunrise on the longest day but, in fact, it never gets dark in the middle of summer at that high latitude since the sun doesn't dip far enough below the horizon for darkness to fall. Of course, they pay for this in the winter!

The historic "accident" is that the June 21 solstice occurs nearly at the same time as aphelion, July 4, when the earth is most distant to the sun.

Conversely, the December 21 solstice occurs at nearly the same time as perihelion, January 4, when the earth is closest to the sun.

If the two were reversed, only global warming would prevent London from being scraped off EurAsia by an ice sheet.

http://oldsite.vislab.usyd.edu.au/ed...ages/orbit.gif
(In the diagram, north pole is "up")

The Analemma (equation of solar to siderial [star] time):
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/AnalemmaCurve.GIF

This diagram is a bit easier to read:
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fun...es/helions.GIF

eerrrmm, cheers for that Megs:eek:

Melbourne got dark at 5.30 this evening, heres to 5.32 tomorrow:D

What about vacuousness of your average ex-ex-pat?

I can't remember if you've ever revealed what you do for a living Megs but you should consider putting of your thoughts down in print.

I think Bill Bryson recently published a book along the lines of "A Short History of Nearly Everything".

Your book could be along similar lines, perhaps "A Short Explanation of Absolutely Everything" by Megalania..... :)

and if it will make any of you aussies feel better, it was 14 degC in scunthorpe (uk) yesterday. It was nearly winter woolie weather!!! *shivers* ;)