How dark is it?

I get asked a lot by people who don't live up here about how much daylight we have now. Well, not much. Some days our daylight consists of very grey overcast snow-cloudy skies. But we are gaining light each day now! So here is a picture I took one morning last week. Note the time: almost 9am

Here is one at almost 5pm.


Hardly a difference. The sun starts to come up around 9:30am and starts getting dark around now, 3:30 pm. Today's daylight forecast was from 10:12am to 3:56pm. So in twenty minutes it will be pitch black outside. Pretty cool, huh?!