The day · Toulouse, France
Dusk · 12 min remaining
Sun 10.1° below the horizon, in the west · Atlantic Europe
Conditions
Rain
and overcast
Intermittent rain. Earthworms surface, slugs are active, mushrooms begin to fruit within two to seven days, and rivers become turbid.
Check mushroom sites two to seven days from now. Keep off wet beds to avoid compacting them.
The day, phase by phase
Current phase · 19:26–20:28
1h 2m
Dusk
Current sun position. Maximum altitude today: 40.8°.
The sun is under the horizon but still lighting the sky from below. The ground begins to radiate its heat straight up into a clear sky and cools faster than the air above it.
Fish active
Largemouth bassbest now
Cruising the weed edges, pads and shallow flats, ambushing anything that moves across the top.
Run-off colours the water and washes in food. Fish the inflows and current seams.
Garden species active
Running the soil surface after dark, taking slugs, cutworms and larvae. One of the best predators a garden has.
At the surface after dark and in wet weather, pulling leaves down into the burrow.
Out on everything, feeding hardest between midnight and first light, and all day when it is wet.
Slugs feed through the day as well as at night, and blight spreads in warm, wet air.
Inactive in this phase
Northern pike · Honey bee · Lady beetle
Interactive
The Earth's rotation and the day at Toulouse
Rotate the Earth, or use the arrows, to follow the location from sunrise to noon, sunset and night. One full rotation is one day.
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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