Off topic a bit - December solstice

[WindnFog]

This isn't a technical weewx question, and I apologize if I'm wasting bandwith. But I gotta know! :-)

I have been watching my sunrise time (via weewx and confirmed by a Google search of sunrise in Halifax, 12 miles away.) 21 December is supposed to be the shortest day of the year, and it is (+- a day.) However it's just around now, about 2 weeks past 21 December, that I see the sunrise time stall, and I assume it will reverse and start to get earlier in the next few days.

The days are getting longer since 21 December because the sunset time is moving at a faster rate

than the sunrise is.

Can anyone with some astronomical experience explain why this is? (i.e. shouldn't the sunrise start to get earlier and the sunset later on the same date?)

- Paul

www.ve1dx.net  

[Andrew Milner]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30549149

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice

http://www.dlmcn.com/eqntime.html

should set you in the right direction!!

[Paul Dunphy]

    Thanks, Andrew. Makes sense now. 

- Paul VE1DX 

www.ve1dx.net

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[Steve]

You've got it all back to front.

21st December was the longest day, they are now getting shorter :)

Regards,

Steve.