{"id":53,"date":"2010-04-13T00:12:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T04:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/13\/daylight-hours-explorer\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:57:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:57:38","slug":"daylight-hours-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/13\/daylight-hours-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Daylight Hours Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting website that allows you to track how many hours of daylight there will be on various days of the year in different regions around the globe.\u00a0 You just plug in your latitude and the date of interest and it shows you on a clear graph how many hours of light there will be.\u00a0 There is also a globe where you can see where the sunlight is being directed at this time.\u00a0 This is an important factor in determining seasons, as we all know now. The equinoxes, solstices and yearly averages are also noted on the graph. <a href=\"http:\/\/astro.unl.edu\/classaction\/animations\/coordsmotion\/daylighthoursexplorer.html\" title=\"Daylight Hours Explorer \">Take a look!<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Bonus : On what day do the Sun&#8217;s rays hit the Earth at the angle shown below??<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2010\/04\/earth-lighting-summer-solstice_en.png\" title=\"Summer Solstice\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/files\/2010\/04\/earth-lighting-summer-solstice_en.png\" alt=\"Summer Solstice\" height=\"271\" width=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting website that allows you to track how many hours of daylight there will be on various days of the year in different regions around the globe.\u00a0 You just plug in your latitude and the date of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/13\/daylight-hours-explorer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44770,1342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2010","category-tools-of-the-geographer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}