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It's (nearly) the shortest day!

๐‡๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฃ๐จ๐ข๐œ๐ž, ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐ข๐ญ (๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’š!) ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ค๐š ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฒ๐ž๐š๐ซ! ๐ŸŒž๐ŸŒ™

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Every so often, this day changes from the 21st of December to the 22nd for some cool reason to do with the tilt of ๐ŸŒ and the position of the โ˜€๏ธ. Did you know that?

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This year, the solstice itself occurs at 3.27am GMT ๐’•๐’๐’Ž๐’๐’“๐’“๐’๐’˜, and we get just under 8 hours of Friday festive sunlight. That's 8 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the longest day of the year ! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

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Today (the 21st) is still commonly regarded as "the shortest day" but this year it isn't so. (I'm sorry, I'm a data analyst, I can't help but shoot out some stats ๐Ÿซฃ๐Ÿค“) . The next time it falls on the 22nd is 2027. ๐Ÿ“†

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๐’๐จ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐š๐ง?

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It means that after tomorrow, sunset will happen incrementally later each day and by the end of January you'll notice sunrise happening a little earlier too! ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ

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Just think about the before/after work riding on the horizon! ๐Ÿ˜

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By the time we get to February, we'll have sunrise before 7am and sunset at 5.30pm! ๐ŸŒ…

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We've made it this far - ๐˜„๐—ฒ'๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐Ÿ’ช

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