Today is the Winter's Solstice, the shortest day of the year. In the southern United States (Latitude about 31 degrees), the difference between the shortest day and the longest day (Summer's Solstice, June 21st) is about 4 hours. Quite a big difference, or so I thought.
Living in Odense, Denmark during this Winter's Solstice, our Latitude is about 55 degrees, about 24 degrees further away from the Equator.
As I type this, it is getting dark at 3:43 PM.
At my home in Alabama, the sun rose at 5:50 this morning and will set at 4:55 this evening, a 10 hour and 9 minute day.
In Odense, Denmark, the sun rose at 8:44 this morning and will set at 3:49 this evening, a 7 hour and 5 minute day.
Hard to get used to, but it is really good to know that tomorrow the days start getting longer. And come Summer's Solstice, the sun will rise at 4:36 in the morning and set at 10:04 at night, a lovely, bright 17 and 1/2 hour day! 10 1/2 hours difference.
What a difference a few degrees of Latitude makes.
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