Weather Update
June 16th, 2005,The longest day of the year, the summer solstice, is almost upon us. Here at roughly the 45th parallel of latitude, that is a long day. On June 17, a few days before the solstice, the sun rises at 5:26 and sets at 9:02–over fifteen and half hours of daylight, not counting dawn and dusk.
We are enjoying sunny, mild weather with highs in the 80s, what weatherman Paul Douglas calls a “romp under a royal-blue sky”–this after a long spring of cloudy, rainy weather. It’s a wonderful time to be living here.