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The winter high moved away and there were two weeks of rain before the webcam saw another cloudless day. By now the shadow’s really started to get a shift on, west yes but also a lot further south. The days are getting longer.

Not a cloud in the sky… another sparkling crisp day with pressure a rare high. We’d walked into the centre of town to make the most of the weather, amusing ourselves mid-miserable lockdown by pointing at fruffed up teals and spherical pelicans in St James’s Park. The Thames was like a mirror traffic-free under theContinue reading “9th January 2021 12:00”

One thing you can say about this time of year, the shadow’s westward movement certainly makes up for its feeble attempts to head back south. The graph plot hugely exaggerates the actual east-west movement, but using the Royal Exchange as a marker, there’s no denying the shadow’s heading west pretty quickly. After a few cloudyContinue reading “7th January 2021 12:00”

Happy new year. Still locked down and with no end in sight. I’d got up late and it had clouded over, but the View told a different story and the tip of the shadow was just poking out above a broad expanse of shadow. A stroke of luck at least to start 2021’s leg ofContinue reading “2nd January 2021 12:00”

A few seconds earlier this shadow would have run up to the spire of the Royal Exchange, making it look like a white tip to its dark wedge. What might have been… As it was, it’s notable only for being the last shot of 2020, the last sunny midday of an awful, unprecedented and houseboundContinue reading “27th December 2020 12:00”

Now we’re talking. Not only is this the first shadow of the winter, the solstice having been three days and a couple of hours ago, but 24th December is a notable day in the analemma in London: one of only four days in which the Sun is directly due south. So this sharp shadow pointsContinue reading “24th December 2020 12:00”