Happy summer solstice!

[radiantfracture]

Today the sun rose at 5:11 am where I am and will set at 9:18 pm, for 16 hours, 6 minutes, and 45 seconds of daylight.

There will be 40 minutes of true night, with about two hours of astronomical twilight on either side; likewise an hour of nautical twilight coming and going; and 42 minutes of civil twilight each way in which to play that Weakerthans song.

How about you?

After all this rain and cold gray June, summer has appeared so abruptly that it's disorienting, like a smash cut from rain to sun.

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Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Sunrise at 4.26, sunset at 22.03.

It's overcast today - so depending on the exact formation of the clouds it may not get fully dark at all.

[radiantfracture]

Every year on this day I miss being further north!

[danieldwilliam]

When I was a boy I lived in the north of Scotland - not the far north but north enough that on the summer solstice it didn't get dark. My dad used to wake us up to go and watch the sunset and sunrise at the beach.

[isis]

Heh, I always breathe a sigh of relief that the days are going to get shorter. It's not that I don't like daylight, it's just that I'm quite phototropic and find it difficult to sleep when it's at all light out. If you ever watched Northern Exposure, there's an episode where Joel just stays awake all the time, because of the 24-hour-or-nearly daylight, getting increasingly manic, and then conks out utterly, and...it me. (When I've visited Alaska, and also Scotland, it was quite difficult for me!) So I spend the height of the summer exhausted and sleep-deprived.

I live in SW Colorado, sunrise was at 5:51, sunset is at 20:35. Also it's generally quite dry and clear, so the sun streams in unimpeded by clouds.

[cmcmck]

It was light after ten here last night.

[naye]

Happy solstice!

We've got daylight 04:11 - 22:16, for a total of 18:06. No astronomical twilight, but 02:27 of civil and 03:27 of nautical.

Love this time of year.

[ranunculus]

14.55 hours of daylight. I love it.
Forecast to be 104F here today after weeks of between 65 and the hight 80's. Not a welcome change. but not unexpected. It was lovely to have a cool end of May and first 3 weeks of June!
I miss being in Anchorage this time of year.
The shortest night I ever spent was on the Haul Road far above the Arctic Circle at the end of May. Sun dipped down but didn't entirely go below the horizon all night.

[larryhammer]

Today we're getting 14 h 18 min of sunup, with twilight lasting about 27 min before and after. Latitude only 32N makes a difference.

The weather is partly cloudy right now -- our summer thunderstorm season has more or less arrived, though we haven't gotten a good boomer down in the city valley yet. But it cuts the heat by 10F (down to a high of mid-90s) so even with the humidity it's better.

[glinda]

Sunrise at 4.17 am (I wasn’t around for it but I can confirm it was fully light at 6.20 when I was walking to work) and sunset is at 22.19 and it probably won’t get fully dark at all. (18 hours of light!) Mostly this means it’s a rubbish week to be on early shift as it’s really difficult- even with black out curtains - to get to sleep early enough for a good night’s sleep!

[yarrowkat]

in Albuquerque, we'll celebrate the Solstice this Saturday by drumming and dancing from sunrise to sunset. has to be a saturday, regardless of the date of the Solstice itself, because capitalism. today the sun will rose at 5:53am and set about 8:25pm. at our house, sunrise is a minute or two later, and sunset a minute or two earlier, because of the shape of the river valley; we're below the mesa.

[radiantfracture]

Such a beautiful sense of place in this.

[sperrywink]

Happy Solstice!

[sabotabby]

What even is time? Although I never need an excuse to listen to the Weakerthans.

[mount_oregano]

Today is my birthday, 15 hours and 14 minutes of sun here in Chicago, 16 hours and 23 minutes of light, and 24 hours of celebration. Weather was 98 degrees and sunny, so I celebrated in air conditioning.