After the summer solstice every year, time in daylight is slowly stolen by time in darkness in the northern hemisphere. This change isn’t very noticeable until September when sunrise and sunset times become later and earlier, respectively. There are still 24 hours in a day, but the way those 24 hours are split up between time in sunshine to time in moonlight changes.
Through September, areas in southern Texas and the peninsula of Florida lose the least amount of time in daylight to time in darkness in the Continental U.S., at 40 minutes. Areas in the Continental U.S. that lose the most time in daylight to time in darkness are in the far northern parts of the Lower 48, like Montana, Minnesota, North Dakota, Idaho, and Washington. In this northern area, 100 minutes of time in daylight are lost to time in darkness.
Arkansas typically loses between an hour to an hour and 10 minutes of time in daylight to time in darkness in September. On September 1, the sunrise in Little Rock occurred at 6:42 a.m. and the sunset occurred at 7:35 p.m. On September 30 in Little Rock, the sunrise occurs at 7:03 a.m. and the sunset occurs at 6:54 p.m.
Until the winter solstice, time in daylight will slowly be lost to time in darkness across the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere by daylight, and the longest night of the year by time in darkness. This is due to the tilt of the Earth on its axis…