How can it be going dark already?? / myLot

United Kingdom

July 12, 2022 4:10pm CST

Last month the weather here was quite cool, but now it has really heated up. The days certainly feel like summer when the sun is beating down from a cloudless blue sky. But in the evenings it is already starting to feel like summer is on the way out. I mean how can it be going dark at only 9:30 pm?? I love the long summer days and I like it even better if I get a chance to go to the north of Scotland (or even Norway!) where it’s still broad daylight at 11 o’clock at night. Here, although we are a lot further south, at the height of summer I am often still gardening in daylight at 10 pm. But midsummer’s day is more than three weeks ago already and now it feels like it’s all downhill from here to winter again : ( All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.

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Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (21503)

• London, England

13 Jul 22

Around here as the sun goes down, it seems that wispy clouds appear and we get that classic red sky at night. Still, far too hot and I am not looking forward to the beginning of next week

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Fleur

@Fleura (34941)

• United Kingdom

13 Jul 22

We're lucky, we seem to be having overcast conditions at least part of every day, which makes a huge difference.

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Ron Rybs

@Ronrybs (21503)

• London, England

13 Jul 22

@Fleura Same here, it was overcast most of the morning, today and yesterday, but the sun is relentless and the afternoons are far too warm.

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Akaninyene Etuk

@akanetuk (2132)

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13 Jul 22

Apart from the cold, I think Europe and England has the best weather.

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WorDazza

@WorDazza (15826)

• Manchester, England

12 Jul 22

I've always found it odd that we get the longest day of the year in the UK before summer has really started. I know it can be explained by our latitude, earth's orientation relative to the sun etc. but it still just feels odd.

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Fleur

@Fleura (34941)

• United Kingdom

13 Jul 22

It's the names that get me - how can the so-called first day of summer be the same day as midsummer day?

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WorDazza

@WorDazza (15826)

• Manchester, England

13 Jul 22

@Fleura Blimey you're right. I never even thought of that. I did once hear that the meteorological summer is different to the actual summer. No idea how/why and was never interested enough to find out if I'm being completely honest.

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changjiangzhibin89

@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)

• China

13 Jul 22

Ah,it is still broad daylight at 11 P.M. It is just about the polar day ! Here the days begin to shorten after the Summer Solstice,on the contrary ,the days lengthen after the Winter Solstice.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502208)

• Italy

13 Jul 22

We only lost 5 minutes in the evening from June 21st that is very little and I cannot see the difference. Unfortunately we already lost 15 minutes in the morning and there I see the difference.

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (97957)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

13 Jul 22

Well here it is 7:30 PM and the sun is still out but by 9 PM it will also be dark already but still, I like that the days are longer in the summer, I mean when the autumn and winter is here it is dark by 6 and I certainly do not like that,

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Fleur

@Fleura (34941)

• United Kingdom

13 Jul 22

Yes, here it is dark by 4pm in winter, so working people often have to go to work in the dark and go home in the dark and never see daylight unless they get to go outside at lunch time!

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Akaninyene Etuk

@akanetuk (2132)

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13 Jul 22

I remember this sight when I was in Manchester, it was not dark till 11 pm, I was amused.

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rebelann1949

@rebelann (117206)

• El Paso, Texas

13 Jul 22

Yeah, the nights are getting longer but here the afternoons will get up to at least 37c for the next week or more.

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Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

13 Jul 22

It goes downhill slowly minutes after minutes.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381837)

• Rockingham, Australia

13 Jul 22

We don't have such long evenings here but I loved it in Ireland. Despite the late hour, I never felt particularly tired while it was daylight despite being up for hours.

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George B Vieto

@Deepizzaguy (122076)

• Lake Charles, Louisiana

12 Jul 22

The time when the sunset in my area is around 8pm. The sun will be going down sooner from now on after July 8.

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Dawnsummer

@misunderstood_zombie (8765)

• United States

13 Jul 22

The heat of summer leave us until September. I love Fall.

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Luis Asuncion

@luisga814 (7138)

• Quezon City, Philippines

12 Jul 22

Thanks for sharing the weather conditions in your place. Here in the Philippines, it all rains the entire evening. Until now, it's already 5:29am of Wednesday.

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