4.15pm and it's pitch dark - where has the light gone?

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Hate this time of year. It started getting dark around 2.30pm. Pitch dark by 4.15pm.

Won't be daylight again until 8.30am tomorrow morning. It's lashing rain outside and is forecast to do similar for most of the week.

Winter can fuck off. Roll on the Solstice and at least the nights start getting shorter again.

I'm another who lived for many years in a climate where it was either just hot, or absolutely stinking bloody hot, no real seasons, rain was very rare - I'd never want to go back to that. It was only after first living in a no real seasons- climate that I really appreciated our spring. So I can live with the winter we have to have first.

Must say I do dislike all this 'hygge' shite - IMO a word just gleefully pounced on by marketing/'lifestyle' mag people, to entice us to buy throws and candles etc. - as if we'd never have thought of that ourselves and were all sitting shivering in cold rooms all winter.

Hygge can just fygge off!

I really noticed a difference between the winters when I worked in huts/ smaller blocks and had to go outside around site and the winters when I was in the main block and didn't get an ounce of daylight from Sunday evening to Saturday morning.

Clear days are so much easier. It was actually lovely last week, finally getting a sunset at 4:00 and sunrise at 7:30 rather than a 50 shades of grey day veering between not-quite-pitch-black and lunchtime-lurk.

I think Scandinavia has an advantage of less overcast weather and snow reflecting light that does a better job of maximising the limited hours of daylight.

I think Scandinavian countries also heat their houses well / have better insulated houses/ cheaper heating bills?
It’s lovely to come in from the snow to a toasty house.

It's the price we pay for the joy of long, summer evenings, which those living near the equator never get.

I like the changing seasons, but I do think life should adjust with them. I'd love to work shorter hours in winter for example.

Hygge can just fygge off! :o :o :o Oh wow same. I cringe whenever I see the word now, which sadly is a lot in Scandiland.

My heating bill is not cheap at all! But we do have more efficient ways of heating our houses yes, and underfloor heating in the bathroom makes ALL the difference on a cold winter morning.

Amusingly enough, normally in Scandiland if a company is offering seasonal hours (which some do), it's shorter days in summer and longer in winter.

There was a I Fucking Hate Summer thread in the summer. Rules were: don’t come on telling Summer Haters TWBU. Same rules should apply here.
Well the OP enabled the voting option so they obviously are looking for all points of view! I don't mind this time of year, it's February and March I find that really drag on in terms of miserable weather.

Amusingly enough, normally in Scandiland if a company is offering seasonal hours (which some do), it's shorter days in summer and longer in winter.

And there was me thinking the Scandiwegians were a sensible bunch.

Illusions shattered!

I didn't enable voting. He site just did it anyway.