Blogging–you know this–means maintaining a log, with all the benefits. Here‘s what I logged a year ago.
The solstice this year happens 12/22 at 1:08 am EST (6:08 UT). For this post, I wanted only fotos I took on the 12/21. Above a very crowded Arthur Kill: (foreground left to right) Thomas D. Witte, APL Virginia, Atlantic Ocean, Turkon’s Dilara Kilkavan, and a tiny work boat.
And here’s more: aft of APL Virginia lies APL President Polk, Ellen McAllister at bow and Eileen McAllister abeam. And you thought the highways were jammed. And I wonder whether these containers hold spring fashions and summer clothes.
It’s 4 pm here, already dark at nine hours before the solstice; 182 days from now, come summer solstice, folks will lie still sunning themselves. Peace on earth, calm at sea, and quiet at anchorage . . . like the crew on this Reinauer tug and barge.
Only 91 short but lengthening days til spring!!!
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December 23, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Biffle French
Regarding the solstice, have you ever looked at the second derivative of day length (where day length = minutes of daylight per 24 hour period)? The first derivative is the rate at which the days get longer i.e. “how many more minutes of daylight today than yesterday?” The second derivative is the rate of change of the first derivative.
The maximum increase or decrease of day length rate of change is at the equinox, and the minimum is at the solstice. Days get longer fastest on the spring equinox and they get shorter fastest on the fall equinox. Day length changes not at all on the solstice (second derivative = 0).