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5:50 pm
Tue December 21, 2010

There's hope! Days getting longer in northern hemisphere

Winter solstice 2005
Credit Tom Goskar - Flickr
Sunrise during the winter solstice in Stonehenge in 2005

I was hoping to get to this post sooner, but the day just got away from me.

Today seemed unusually short. That's because it IS the shortest day of the year.

And soon, very soon, the days in the northern hemisphere will start to get longer.

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