The day · Cork, Ireland
Night · 448 min left
Sun 35.5° below the horizon, in the north-west · Atlantic Europe
The kind of day it is
High overcast
A lid of cloud over everything. Light is flat and diffuse, shadows are gone, and the whole day behaves like an extended dawn — fish roam shallow, and greens that would bolt in sun hold on.
The whole day is usable. This is the day to cover water and to transplant.
The day, phase by phase
Happening now · 20:12–06:34
10h 22m long
Night
Where the sun is this minute. Its highest today: 32.9°.
No solar input at all. What happens now runs on stored heat, on the moon, and on the animals that evolved to work while nothing can see them.
In the water now
Brown troutbest now
The most nocturnal trout there is. After dark the big ones leave cover and hunt the shallows and the tailouts.
Flat light spreads fish out and holds them shallow through the middle of the day.
In the garden now
Ground beetlebest now
Running the soil surface after dark, taking slugs, cutworms and larvae. One of the best predators a garden has.
Earthwormbest now
At the surface after dark and in wet weather, pulling leaves down into the burrow.
Slugsbest now
Out on everything, feeding hardest between midnight and first light, and all day when it is wet.
The kindest day for transplanting there is, and the safest for sowing.
Sitting this one out
Largemouth bass · Northern pike · Rainbow trout · Honey bee · Lady beetle
Try it
Spin the Earth — and bring the day to Cork
Drag the Earth round, or tap the arrows, and watch home turn into the sunlight at sunrise, round to noon, away again at sunset, and through the night. One whole turn is one day and one night.
Night at home
Still dark. Keep turning — home is coming round toward the sunlight.
One whole turn = 24 hours
Turn to:
Seen from above the North Pole, the Earth turns anticlockwise — west to east — so the Sun comes up in the east. One whole turn takes 24 hours.
Say it like this
- Age 2“Round and round! Where is our house? Is it day or night?”
- Age 4“When our house turns toward the Sun, it's day. When it turns away, it's night.”
- Age 6“The Sun doesn't really move across the sky — we do, riding on the turning Earth. How many hours does one whole turn take?”
Go outside: Stand in the same spot at breakfast, lunch and supper and point to where the Sun is — never look straight at it. It moves from east to west because we are turning.
The full guide
Everything for Cork this week in one place.
Atlantic Europe
The region this day belongs to, and what lives in it.
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The year's arc: day length, the moon and the water behind the air.
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