The day · Prague, Czechia
Night · 340 min left
Sun 45° below the horizon, in the north · Continental Europe
The kind of day it is
Front passing
and bluebird
Pressure is moving. Animals feel this before you do: the hours ahead of a falling barometer are often the best feeding of the week, and the bright, cold, high-pressure day behind it is usually the worst.
Go now, before it arrives. Afterwards, give it a day.
The day, phase by phase
Happening now · 19:39–06:05
10h 26m long
Night
Where the sun is this minute. Its highest today: 34.7°.
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.
Feeding hard on the drop, shut down behind it. The two days after a front are the slowest of the week.
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.
Wind shift and a drop in pressure — stake, tie in, and pick anything ripe before it arrives.
Sitting this one out
Northern pike · Rainbow trout · Honey bee · Lady beetle
Try it
Spin the Earth — and bring the day to Prague
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.
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Continental Europe
The region this day belongs to, and what lives in it.
The almanac
The year's arc: day length, the moon and the water behind the air.
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