the darkest days of the year

[Joe Biden 2020]

The sun is up just after 7:30 here and down just before 5:30 (tonight 5:20).  The sunrise will peak at about 7:50 in early January and the sunset has already bottomed out at 5:17 and has turned the corner back toward the summer solstice.  Then, the sunrise will bottom out at 6:14 am and the sunset will peak at 8:50 pm.  I generally love more daylight than darkness, but it really doesn't phase me all that much.

What's interesting, and I know this is slightly off subject, is the past two winters have been unquestionably nasty for Oklahoma.  Yet, we are colder this December than we were the past two years.  Thankfully, though, our drought is rapidly improving with on average an inch of rain every 7-10 days since September.  In fact, tonight, tomorrow, and into Tuesday morning, we have a whopper of a storm expected to dump 1-3"of rain for Oklahoma City and 8-10"of snow in Northwest Oklahoma and the Panhandle.