By Rod Hill on 2011-01-07
This morning, January 6th, became the first day the sun starts to rise earlier each morning! It is true that our sunset has been happening later for a while. If you go back to December, when the sunrise was 7:43 and the sunset was 4:27, we have to date picked up less than 10 extra minutes of total daylight each day because the sun has been coming up later until this morning. Starting today, we will begin to make real progress in total minutes of daylight! Here are a few milestone dates to mark our progress as daylight hours grow longer.
1. Today, January 6th: Sunrise 7:50 a.m. / Sunset 4:42 p.m. (1st day of earlier sunrise & later sunset)
2. January 20th: Sunset 5:00 pm!
3. February 1st: Sunrise 7:32 am / Sunset 5:17 pm
4. February 23: Sunrise 7:00 am / Sunset 5:49 pm
5. March 3: Sunrise 6:46 am / Sunset 6:00 pm
6. March 13: Sunrise 7:27 am / Sunset 7:14 pm (Daylight Saving Time Begins)
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March 20th: Spring Begins!!
Mountain Snow & Valley Rain On Wet Pace