[speedgibson] Speed Gibson: Sunrise, Sunset

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Posted by Speed Gibson:
Sunrise, Sunset
http://speedgibson.powerblogs.com/posts/1229788860.shtml


   The snow and ice is far from over, but take heart that the Winter
   Solstice is tomorrow morning, December 21, at 6:04 AM CST. The days
   will begin getting longer, however slowly at first starting at 8 hours
   and 46 minutes. We won't get to 9 hours until January 9, 2009.
   Actually, due to the fact that the Earth is not a perfect sphere,
   sunset has already been going our way since Dec 9, then 4:32 pm, 4:35
   pm tomorrow afternoon. Conversely, sunrise won't reverse until Jan 2
   then 7:51 am, today 7:48 am.
   It takes time for the increased warmth to show up on the thermometer
   as we know. Even though daily solar energy is 19 percent higher in
   January than December, the average temperature is over 4 degrees
   colder.
   Spring came on April 20th last year on the Speed Gibson calendar, so
   only about four months to go!