Maybe This Sun Rising/Setting At Wrong Time Isn't So Wacky

Thanks for your awareness and posting in. The thread the other day was interesting. I didn't pay attention yesterday but will this afternoon if the clouds move out. Strange weather in South today. Wonder if it has anything to do with all of the criss cross trails yesterday. ;( Keep us posted!

If anyone reading this thread hasn't already seen it, there is another thread (18 pages and counting) started on 12/18 that discusses this "phenomenon." Lots of theories and a lot of (attempted?) debunking by "shills", but it is interesting to say the least. I don't know how to link a thread, but if you GLP search "Missouri", you will find it.

This is where we are discussing it.

Thread: The Sun Was Supposed To Set At 4:41 Central Time In Missouri, 12/18 , Still Hasn't Set At 5:01

OP what time-keeping device/display are you going by?

"During the winter"? That's just silly. Sunrise times will vary a great deal during the winter, so what you're saying can't possibly be accurate.

We look forward to your reporting of specific sunrise times as often as you can, clear through to to spring- please include pictures with a timepiece in the shot. I doubt you will. Personally, I think you are lying and trolling.

Well, we finally had a day when it wasn't totally cloudy at sunrise (sucks in this part of upstate NY). So I was able to get a reading this morning.

As per a previous question, what I use for time devices are my watch and my computer. My watch is set by listening to WWV in Fort Collins, CO (I have a shortwave radio). My computer is automatically synchronized by the Windows operating system to some atomic clock. So I am not "guessing" at the time - I know exactly what it is.

And when I earlier said I knew "what time the sun rises in the winter", I was referring to the variations that I know happen as the weeks progress. I know that in the dead of winter - the winter solstice - it will be around 7:40. As it gets toward March it will be around 7:05. I know when the sunlight is going to be coming in my office, as I have an east-facing window (along with one to the south).

As I observed on Dec 20, the sun had completely risen and was quite a bit above the horizon before 7:30.

Today - 19 days after the winter solstice - the first tip of the sun crested the horizon at 7:32, and the sun did not fully clear the horizon until 7:36.

And no - there are no hills or trees that could affect the readings over the past few days as the sun slowly begins to move to the north. It is exactly the same sight line.

Got any theories OP ?

Hmmm - how about the comments and reader observations about changes to time that have been posted on the web site of the w3b b0t's partner in crime? (his name seems to be banned here too for some reason)

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