Dark Side - not so dark yet

Albeit the "dark side of the Year" has begun, which becomes more pronounced when summertime is pulled back to normal winter time... but from the standpoint of statistics, October 2024 in Stockholm has been on the sunny side. This can of course all change, like it did last year, into a very, very long most of the time sunshine-less time.

But for the time being, it is sunny. Another morning with friendly sunshine, albeit its rays can't shine directly into our kitchen and big room anymore. It is too far standing beyond the Southeast.

There is not a single cloud in the sky - and time is still early. It is a bit funny, being up this early out of bed. It is the time around 0800 where i normally go to bed. During my past three free days, I have slept a bit funky; in smaller chunks here and there - which disrupted my "normal" (night shift) sleeping pattern i normally adhere to.

I will address this by sleeping several hours late in the afternoon, before going to work tonight. For the time being, I enjoy the amazingly tasty Bialetti Nocciola coffee, and that beautiful light coming though the windows. Mild colors of pale blue, and a gentle warm yellow mixed together with ultra thing curtains and green plants.

They are still very happy from all the light.

October 2024
Average sunshine hours in Stockholm

All of October hasn't gone through yet, so there might come a slight change during the last days, dependent on how much sun we get during the last days this month. So far, as you can see, Oct 2024 lies very close to the Oct 2015 record ! However, even if Oct 2023 last year was the time when the sun first was more than plenty (often 10 hours) and then dropped like a stone in the last two weeks - the overall average daily sunshine hours, were still 3.80 hours. Not that far off from the current daily 4.67 hours.

It was in Nov 2023 it then dropped rapidly down to a mere 0.5 hours per day, ending up at a futile 0.1 hours per day in Dec 2023. Absolutely dreadful, i call tell you that.

The poor ones of 2024

In Feb 2024, the sunshine hours were much lower than average this year - practically half than during previous years. Then it happened again; April 2024, which was extremely sunshine poor with just 3.8 hours per day, while during earlier years, April could achieve 89 hours per day. Talk about a huge difference.

Thanks to that an extremely sunny May 2024, followed, as well a decent August and rather sunny September 2024, we made it already up to 1900+ hours in total. And with that, not really far off from the previous years, which often exceeded 2000 hours. There was a time earlier this year, when i thought we might get a taste of what's it like with a sunshine poor year; like in 1983, and the even worse 1984.