As the days start getting longer, do they get longer in the morning, or in the evening?

[raccoon]

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Need I add :silly:

Seriously, anybody know the rate at which days get longer? I guess it would depend on your latitude.

[kayakjohnny]

1. Use this if you're near the east or gulf coast....

http://saltwatertides.com/pickpred.html

Type the closest area to you and you'll get the idea.

It gives the tides and so much more.



It seems like we're over the hump and that both the mornings and evenings are getting more light.

I'm sure there are similar tools for the rest of the country.

Cheers.

[kayakjohnny]

2. Ooops, just noticed the west coast on there too.

That's cool.

(ed. for morning spelling glitch)

[Ptah]

3. This current image might help:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth/action?opt=-p

[Crystal Clarity]

4. Really cool site

Thanks!

[AlecBGreen]

5. both

They should roughly change at the same pace as the day lengthens, so if sunrise is 30sec earlier today, sunset will be 30sec later.

Time of sunrise & sunset changes fastest around the fall & spring equinox, slowest around the winter & summer solstice.

[Lionel Mandrake]

9. That is roughly correct,

but not exactly.

The Earth's orbit is not perfectly circular. We speed up as we get closer to the sun, and slow down as we get farther away. This causes the times of sunrise and sunset to change at different rates.

[AlecBGreen]

16. ah yes, forgot about that!

thanks :)

[meow2u3]

6. That's a good question

You might want to keep a record of sunrise and sunset times. I never bothered to notice, but I'm sure your local meteoroligists know :crazy:

[Silver Swan]

7. Here in NE Illinois

I always notice that the sun begins setting later even before the winter solstice, but sunrise does not get earlier, and in fact gets even later until early January, when sunrise begins happening earlier.

So the increase in daylight here is lopsided, at least by the clock, and first happens in the evening (or actually late afternoon.)

[bikebloke]

8. About a minute a day when I lived in Seattle.

It seems to be more, here in the mid-Atlantic region.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Duh. Definitely, they get longer in the morning more frequently...

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[elleng]

11. yes!

:rofl:

[May Hamm]

12. Go to Weather Underground

Go to Weather Underground http://www.wunderground.com/ Type in your zipcode. Toward the bottom of the page, just above the moons there is a button - "Extended View" Click it and you'll get an Astronomy section that tells you the sunrise and sunset and when noon is exactly and the day length to the second and just lots of good stuff. Tomorrow will be 1m 44s longer. Good site!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Welcome to DU, May Hamm!

Stick around!

:hi:

[May Hamm]

15. Thank You

Five or so years ago I was here under some other name that I can't recall. The place was filled with some pretty bitter people and I just got out of the mood to ever come back. Thought I'd give it another try and my first impression is that the people have really calmed down. What a nice change. Thanks, I think I will stay a while.

[May Hamm]

14. You got me curious

This site is a tiny bit more complicated. You have to do math. LOL http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunrise.html

For my city between January 15 and January 21 the day gains 13 minutes and 35 seconds - six minutes in the morning and seven minutes in the evening.

So to answer your original question, the day appears to gain daylight pretty close to equally morning and evening.

[LawnKorn]

17. The truth is the days get longer in the middle and it pushes both ends out

[panader0]

18. Best answer..........lol

[rurallib]

19. I always go here:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.php

fill in the state and location and the table for a year will be computed.

My observation is that the day lengthens in the evening only until @Jan. 6th. The morning actually continues to come later until then.
I am guessing that is why 12th night is such a big deal.

[BarbaRosa]

20. I go to that site every year,

and print out the chart for our location.

Our earliest sunset (5:07pm) happened between Nov.26 and Dec.8 with Dec.3 being the pivot point. Our latest sunrise (7:16am) happened between Jan.2 and Jan.15 with Jan.8 the pivot point. Dec.21 lies pretty much centered between these two time sets.

So, sunset happens during late Nov. and early Dec.; and sunrise is during early Jan.

I got into this trivia a few years back, and keep up with every year.:shrug: