We’ve got some good news for you, Seattle — we’re only a few days away from 5 p.m. sunsets.
It’s definitely a big milestone in making steady progress toward getting out of the Big Dark . But if you keep track of daily sunrise and sunset times, it may really feel like it’s taking awhile — and that’s because it is.
While our days change in length by ~3:30 minutes around both equinoxes, our days change by only three seconds on the two solstices.
This is due to something called the “geometric effect ” — it essentially points out that the rate of change between our day lengths speeds up and slows down based on what angle the Earth’s axis is tilted is at .
But look on the brightside — that means our days are getting exponentially longer as we speak. ☀️