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Jun 27, 2023 · Houston has had nine days far this month that haven’t dropped below 80 degrees — nearly double what’s typical for June. This has only happened two other times in the city’s records. In extreme...
Sep 22, 2021 · So when are day and night equal? Simply, it depends on where you are located. In North Texas (where this article is being written), daylight and nighttime will be close to equal on September...
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Sep 20, 2023 · At the equator, day and night are never exactly equal — daylight always exceeds night by 6 to 8 minutes due to the Sun's large apparent size. At the same time, though, day and night are nearly equal every day of the year.
Feb 29, 2024 · When are the daytime and nighttime hours equal? The equinoxes, which occur in March and September, are the only times when both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere experience roughly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime.
- Are Day and Night Equal on The Equinox?
- The Sun Is A Disk, Not A Point
- Atmospheric Refraction and The Equinox
- What Is An Equilux?
Twice a year – on the March and September equinoxes – everyone worldwide supposedly receives exactly 12 hours of day and exactly 12 hours of night. But that’s not precisely true. In fact, there’s about eight more minutes of daylight – at mid-temperate latitudes – on the day of an equinox. And there are two reasons why. They are: 1. The sun is a dis...
Watch any sunset, and you know the sun appears in Earth’s sky as a disk. It’s not pointlike, as stars are, and yet – by definition – most almanacsregard sunrise as when the leading edge of the sun first touches the eastern horizon. They define sunset as when the sun’s trailing edge finally touches the western horizon. This alone provides an extra 2...
The Earth’s atmosphere acts like a lens or prism, uplifting the sun about half a degreefrom its true geometrical position whenever the sun nears the horizon. Coincidentally, the sun’s angular diameter spans about half a degree, as well. In other words, when you see the sun on the horizon, it’s actually just below the horizon geometrically. What doe...
Here’s a new word for you: equilux. The word is used to describe the day on which day and night are equal. The equilux happens a few to several days after the autumn equinox, and a few to several days beforethe spring equinox. Much as earliest sunrises and latest sunsets vary with latitude, so the exact date of an equilux varies with latitude. That...
Sep 22, 2023 · The trouble’s right in the name: “equinox” means “equal night”, implying that day and night are each 12 hours long. But it turns out they’re only mostly equal because of a couple of ...
Feb 26, 2024 · Daylight saving time begins on March 10 at 2 a.m. It's almost time to "spring forward in Texas." The time change begins in March and you may lose an hour of sleep that night.
