longest andshortest

robert551069 | 08:40 Tue 19th Jun 2012 | Science

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The Summer Solstice is tomorrow and sunrise is at 4.43am and sunset is at 9.21pm giving Londoners 16 hours and 38 minutes of daylight.
The shortest day will be 21st December with sunrise at 8.04am and sunset at 3.54pm. Only 7 hours 49 minutes and 43 seconds of daylight
I've just looked it up on the Internet.
It's beautifully sunny in Brighton, East Sussex at present with a lot of blue sky and no wind.....surprise surprise.
How's the weather where you are, I wonder?

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I should not have asked "How's the weather where you are" as I have now just seen that many people have posted a weather report for today

boxtops

No matter, robert - I'm along the coast from you in Kent, it's good here too!

ChuckFickens

And coming around the coast a little more to Essex is also good.

VHG

I am in Solihull, West Midlands, and a lovely sunny day, with a few whisps of cloud.

But rather sadly, even before we seem to have had summer, the days are going to start getting shorter.

andrew1707

Derby and Nottingham are sunny with a little bit of cloud. Not as nice as it was earlier but no rain....wayheeee.

Frank97

Beautiful and sunny here in Somerset, not too hot, just perfect! A few clouds in the sky but nothing to complain about. :-)

wolf63

It is grey and miserable and it is fekkin freeeezin - Scotland

rowanwitch

getting a bit overcast but was lovely earlier

heathfield

Dreich.

Clanad

Pedantically, all "days" are of equal length... 24 hours...daylight is, however, longer or shorter, depending on the time of year...

Here, in the western U.S., we had rainmost of the morning but now (1930 hours) it's cool and the wind has abated... great day (all 24 hours of it).

scowie

thefreedictionary.com definition for "day"...

"1. The period of light between dawn and nightfall; the interval from sunrise to sunset.
2.
a. The 24-hour period during which the earth completes one rotation on its axis.
b. The period during which a celestial body makes a similar rotation."

Pedantically, "daylight" does not have a length, unless you are talking about the length and breadth of the area on earth that it covers; days do! ^_^