The Earliest Sunsets Are Not the Winter Solstice!

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Late afternoon light through the trees Gloucester ©Kim Smith 2014Late October Eastern Point, Gloucester

The weatherman caught my attention this morning when he mentioned that in our region the earliest sunsets do not take place on the winter solstice (December 21st).

Late afternoon light through the trees Gloucester -2 ©Kim Smith 2014. copy

Take heart fellow-lovers-of-sunlight, Gloucester’s earliest sunset of the year will be on December 14th, at 4:09 pm. We’re on the side of gaining late day light everyday thereafter!

Late afternoon light through the trees Gloucester -3 ©Kim Smith 2014.

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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."

4 thoughts on “The Earliest Sunsets Are Not the Winter Solstice!”

  1. Thank Goodness!! The shock of having the sun set at 4:00pm ( having just moved here this spring from Michigan, where the sun sets an hour later) has been terrible!!! I’m looking forward to December 15th.

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    1. I love spending Christmas in Cincinnati with my husband’s family and an added bonus is the later sunset. Where in Michigan are you from? I don’t know the area that well, but Tom’s family had a house on Mullet Lake.

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