The gloom ends today – let the sunshine in !

MNH Naturalists

If you’re anything like me, you’re acutely aware that today marks the Winter Solstice and the shortest day of the whole year in the Northern Hemisphere. While it can feel as though the ceiling of available daylight is pressing down atop our heads right about now—especially at 48 degrees north latitude, where we get a measly 8 hours and 15 minutes of daylight on December 21—the great news is that we’ve technically already started putting daylight back into the bank. Granted, this is measured in seconds per day, at least at first, but there’s a wonderful snowball effect that will kick in soon enough. And the future dividends are wonderfully predictable: a return to weeknight racing, generous late afternoons and evenings for distance racing, warm(er) temperatures, and that great feeling of knowing that the entire sailing season is in the windshield. Soon enough!
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