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Sunset day

Sunset Day is early this year. Today marks the earliest sunset of the year, so even though the days keep getting shorter for another two weeks, there will be more light every evening until summertime. (From that we can deduce that sunrises are getting later at a faster clip than sunsets.) Sunrise Day was of great importance to me during the year before I was injured, when I was getting up to run at 6 AM every morning and frequently finished my run before the sun was up. I’m not an early morning runner nowadays, and seeing late-afternoon light coming through classroom windows during a class that ends at 2:45 has been a bit bleak lately.

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Posted by pjm on December 7, 2006 9:26 PM |

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Boy, that is awfully early. I generally pay attention to this to some extent because of my radio hobby; the earlier sunset happens, the earlier the interesting radio stations start rolling in. This afternoon, I was hearing Spain on 684 kHz by 3:30 pm (yes, I can hear European stations on the AM band with my radios), which is about as early as I ever hear them here in NJ. Now I realize why; I wasn’t expecting sunset day for another week or so.

Posted by: ralph | December 8, 2006 10:01 PM

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