Yesterday was an interesting day: lots of moisture in the atmosphere with a south wind in the mid levels as cold air poured in from the north at the surface. The clouds didn’t move away and the temperatures didn’t budge. The midnight high of 63 dropped to 55 degrees by 8:00am, it was 54 degrees by 11:00pm. This morning by the way is the coldest morning we’ve had since the morning of April 10th.

We switched over to daylight savings time at the start of April which brought the sun up an hour later. Last March 13th the sunrise was at 6:00am. We officially made up that loss of daylight as of today: the sunrise this Thursday morning was at 5:59am. Since the winter solstice the days have been getting longer, gaining about 2 minutes a day on average. The pace of adding daylight peaks around the equinox; it took a little over 40 days to gain an hour in the morning daylight. It will take to early June to gain another half-hour; the earliest the sun comes up around here is 5:29am.

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