In case you missed it, fall is over. As of 10:58, it is now winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
At 10:58 this morning, The North Pole was tilted farther away from the sun than at any other time this year. That is called The Winter Solstice.
At 5:13 AM on June 21 (2022), the North Pole will be tilted closer to the sun, and that will be the Summer Solstice.
Each day between now and June 21, we will have more daylight hours than the day before, but you won’t notice it much for the next few weeks. Today we will have 9 hours, 19 minutes and 37 seconds of daylight. Tomorrow we’ll have “whopping” 9 hours, 19 minutes and 42 seconds – five seconds more. On Thursday we’ll have 9 hours, 19 minutes and 51 seconds – nine seconds more.
Each day, until the Spring Equinox, the amount of daylight not only increases, but it increases a little more than it did the day before.
By the time we get to the Spring Equinox (March 20, 2022), the day-over-day increase in the amount of daylight time will be about two minutes.
Then, even though the amount of daylight time will still be increasing day-over-day, the increment will decline as we approach the Summer Solstice, when the daily increase becomes almost negligible, as it is now.