Anyone with one good ear or one good eye is probably sick of me griping about the short days here in Cambridge. Good news for you! Today is the Winter Solstice and therefore the shortest day of the year so the days will be getting noticeably longer soon and you can start answering the phone again when I call :) But, to prove my point, I did some research. Here are a few stats for you:
Los Angeles: 34° 05' North Latitude Sunrise: 6:55am Sunset: 4:48pm
New York: 40° 44' North Latitude Sunrise: 7:17am Sunset: 4:32pm
Cambridge: 51° 53° North Latitude Sunrise: 8:03am Sunset: 3:48pm
So that means that people near LA in latitude had more than two more hours of daylight than we had today and people near New York had an extra hour and a half! We were lucky that the sun was out today so we did get out and enjoy it with a bike ride along the Cam and a walk through Angelsey Abbey. The first picture was taken on our street at 8:20am and the second was taken in the winter gardens at Angelsey Abbey at about 3:30pm...crazy, huh!?!
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Hi George & Molly. It may seem dark now, but wait until summer when you have waaayy more hours of daylight than us folks in LA and NY. When I was growing up over there it didn't get dark until 10:30 at night!
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