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Frelga
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We are getting back the month of summer we've lost due to smoke, apparently. Lovely weather, in the 70s. Still ridiculously hot for our normal, but it sure feels nice.

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Ohh, nice. We're having a lovely day, too, and I'm about to go out for a walk since I feel guilty when I don't get outside for at least awhile on a day like today.

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First snow day today! :banana:

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We've been enduring the tail end of Storm Barbara since the middle of last week. Finally a nice, sunny Autumnal day today but it's not set to last long... [ img ]

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Rain, rain, rainy here. I do think it's supposed to be non-rainy today but not sunny either.

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Our weather is giving me nostalgic memories of making my middle schooler wear a jacket. "But mom, it says it will be 70s!"

Yeah, for about 30 minutes at 3pm. It'll be 50s for the next 3 hours.

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Michigan, and especially *west* Michigan, is on the extreme western edge of the Eastern timezone. In fact, by rights we should be on Central time, but our predecessors switched to Eastern a century or two ago in order to stick it to Chicago or possibly Wisconsin over some dispute or another (yes, the US has always been like this). In consequence, it stays light longer in the evening than it does most places, but it's dark in the morning. Very, very dark. The end of DST will help a bit, but only for a few weeks.


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Very strong winds last night!

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"Getting enough sun" is on my mind more than year than usual, and I'm realizing just how hard it can be during a Michigan* winter:
  • -The sun isn't up for all that many hours
    -Even if it is up, having a large body of water directly upwind mean you have near-perpetual cloud cover when it's cold
    -Even if it's daylight and there aren't clouds, the angle to the sun is so steep that you're probably in the shadow of some tree, building, or other moderately-tall object to the south
    -Even if you get a good roll on 1 through 3, the angle means there's so much atmosphere between you and the sun, most of its energy gets absorbed before it reaches you
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Vitamin D supplements are pretty much essential since none of us here are hunters, gatherers, or farmers.

Jude, we had the same wind!

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So here's what's going on in Alberta:

Southern Alberta digs itself out after wallop of snow buries cars, blankets roads

Here in the east we're having warm sunny weather. For now... :uhoh:

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And now the first major snowfall of the year comes to Ottawa - 15 to 20 cm expected.

And just on Friday we were sitting outside drinking coffee...

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We had a huge dump of snow, and it was genuine winter for a few days. Then it turned to a few degrees above zero, and the snow is 90% gone.

It's dark by the time I finish work. It's affecting me more than usual this year, maybe because we're all so isolated.

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Yes, it's definitely harder this year. I go to work in the dark, go to the lab which has no windows, and then walk back out 12.5 hours later to more darkness. If I don't make a point of venturing out of the lab at some point during the day, I never see daylight.

We have couriers in and out regularly throughout the day (and night), and we're all always like, "What news of the outside world? Pray, tell us the tales!"

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Winter is weird this year. Twice it arrived in full force, and both times it just - quietly went away. As of now, most of the snow is gone.

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LalaithUrwen wrote:
I go to work in the dark, go to the lab which has no windows, and then walk back out 12.5 hours later to more darkness. If I don't make a point of venturing out of the lab at some point during the day, I never see daylight.
I had a winter like that when I lived in Wisconsin, and it was so awful it convinced me to quit my job and go to grad school. Which worked out well for me, so I suppose I should be grateful.


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*looks it up*

Hmm, parts of Wisconsin are further north than Ottawa.

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I was in Madison, which I suppose is technically farther north than *parts* of Ontario, but the bigger factor was that it's at the eastern edge of its time zone.

Actually, the city where I live now probably belongs in Central time rather than Eastern if the zones ignored political boundaries, and that would just be brutal. It would be dark by or even before 4pm.


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I remember one year when Ukraine was fiddling with time changes so as not to be on Moscow time. It got dark by 3pm somehow. The only saving grace for me was that I was a student, and there were always some lectures that were better spent in the park.

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