How are you dealing with the early darkness?

[I love the Bears]

In some ways I dislike it - but it is nice that my children will go to bed earlier and easier - even the 16 year old!

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

You can probably expect that too when you move to NH.

Yesterday was our first day I saw more than 20 minutes of continuous sunshine in one week.
I was working outdoors Wednesday to Friday and Monday and saw no sun then or on the weekend.
This is typical for fall here...

However yesterday was brilliantly sunny all day and mild, 58 F.
I was working outside then too. It felt more like April or early May than it did November.
Today we had cloud in the morning, but bright sun from noon until sunset and another high of 58 F.
(last week we we're from the high 30's to low 40's most afternoons)

Surprisingly we've had more sun than normal so far in November.
By Nov. 10th we had 22 hours of sunshine instead of our average of 20 hours.
That's 2.2 hours of sun a day and the day is still 9-10 hours long.

I do expect to see clouds. However, fall is actually the cloudiest time of year for most of New England. In the winter the amount of sunlight actually increases because the arctic high pressure areas get stronger and push a lot of the stormy weather further to the south. I definitely realize that New England is much clouder than the Great Plains, and I will have to adjust to that. I enjoy the colder weather and snow quite a bit, though.

[darstar]

Darkness and winter , go together.......... I sleep later in the morning , and , get up when I want to......Thats what I do.....
I once was in Yellowknife , in the summer , parked my motorhome ,alongside a boat launch. The locals were going water skiing at midnight, keeping me from needed sleep. I ask one of them , why , at midnight !....... I was told , this. " why not ?, we sleep all winter , and play all summer , 24-7, If the sun don't go down , nether do we ! ".... I put my blinders back on , and , shut the window.......

[§AB]

during winter here I used to leave for uni on some days when it was still pitch black and return home after sunset.

[GraniteStater]

Most of the US is still located at a lower latitude than European countries. The seasonal variations in daylight are not very extreme at all in the US compared with Canada, northern Europe, and northern Asia.