Showing posts with label solstice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label solstice. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

The shortest day

Britain is further north than you would expect - we're roughly at the same latitude as Labrador in Canada. So today here on the south coast the sun rises at around eight in the morning, and sets again at a quarter to four. The rest of the country sees even less daylight...