Yesterday, this year’s Winter Solstice, may have been the darkest one we’ve experienced yet, a Super Solstice, if you will.
For one thing, this month’s new moon fell on the day. All right, it rose just before 8:00 a.m. and set just after 2:30 p.m., so it didn’t really affect the available light nearly as much as our weather. We had clouds on the deckâwe were completely socked in. In the 10:00 a.m. hour, when we usually watch the sun make its southern transit from the far side of the Coast Range across Lynn Canal to behind the southern point of our property, (see Tracking the Homestead’s Individual Winter Solstice) we saw nothing of the sun, not even a vague light spot in the cloud cover! Continue reading
