Here in Albuquerque we have two minutes less daylight each day now in our headlong rush for the equinox in three weeks (September 22). There’s more than three minutes less light in Portland, Oregon, today than yesterday; two-and-a-half minutes less in Washington; about two minutes, 20 seconds, less each day in Louisville; and three minutes less daylight each day in Leland, Michigan.
Oh, and in Fairbanks, there’s six minutes, 44 seconds, less daylight today than yesterday.
Oh, and there’s no 90s in the forecast. Fall IS here. (Officially Albuquerque reached 97º four times during the summer, last on August 1st. In the past five years we’ve gotten to 100ºF just one time officially.)
Thanks for mentioning Louisville. No one ever does.
The thing about living here is that we’re way on the western edge of the Eastern time zone, so the sun is late to rise and late to set. When we lose daylight, we lose it on both ends of the day, just like everyone else, but we notice it most in the morning. I don’t go to work especially early, but I leave home before sun-up seven months of the year. I’ve started to notice lately that it’s mighty dark when I go, and that depresses me. I also work fairly long days, so I spend four or five months a year leaving in the dark and coming home in the dark. That depressed me a lot.
There’s not really any point to this. I just wanted to let you know, in case you wanted to send me a cheer-up present or something. A case of 2005 Chateau Roland la Garde would be lovely, and not too expensive.
and…this morning (August 31) outside of Seattle it’s overcast, 53 at my house, drizzling. the lights are on and the heats been turned up! hell, we’d be lucky to see 70 again.