During my annual Aurora odyssey in Alaska, () which has brought me there each winter for the past 30 years, we’ve noticed the March daylight expansion to be an amazing 7 minutes per day.The exact amount of brightness-gain depends on your location. This gain will be minuscule at first, just a matter of seconds a day, but will steadily grow until daily daylight expands by three daily minutes per day in March. The psychologically optimistic part of all this is that, starting Thursday, the 22nd, we stop losing daily sunlight which has been going on since last June, and instead finally start to increase it! Learn more about winter solstice and the first day of winter. We already had our darkest afternoon on December 7th and will not suffer our darkest morning, meaning latest sunrise, until the first week of January. This is thanks to the lag between the days’ variable lengths caused by our planet moving at different speeds in our orbit and the inflexible length of each clock’s minutes and hours. The matchup with our clocks is less clear cut.If you’re an early riser and see the Sun come up at around 7:15 AM, that will happen at its rightmost possible spot, in the east southeast. As for things you can easily observe, the most obvious solstitial effect is that you can look out your most southwest facing window on Wednesday and again Thursday and see the Sun set at its leftmost position of the year.We’ll start feeling greater warmth on our skin, too! Solar intensity depends on the sun’s height. But since the ground and the air take awhile to catch up we won’t reach our coldest average temperature until the third week of January, a full month from now.Starting Friday, December 23, the days will start being longer and the Sun will be slightly higher up.The real news is that we will then have the fewest minutes of daylight for 2022. On the solstice in December, those of us in the Northern Hemisphere have our shortest day and our longest night.Your shadow will then extend to its longest length, which, granted, won’t make or break your day.Here are the most tangible factors affecting your everyday life. The Year’s Best Planet Display: Venus, Saturn, Jupiter Lined Up
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