Seattle’s First 5 PM Sunset In Months Is Thursday

SEATTLE — With lower than two months till the spring equinox, Seattle this week is marking one other seasonal milestone. The solar will set after 5 p.m. on Thursday for the primary time since daylight saving time resulted in early November.

Factors south of Seattle, like Olympia, reached the milestone earlier this week, with Seattle and the Eastside quickly to comply with.

The nice instances will preserve rolling by February because the Emerald Metropolis tacks on one other 3 minutes of sunshine every day, and the primary 6 p.m. sundown arrives in early March. Inside per week, sundown instances will vault to 7 p.m. as we “spring ahead.”

Upcoming daylight milestones in Seattle

• Jan. 26
  • Sundown: 5:01 p.m.
  • Day size: 9 hours, 18 minutes
• Feb. 28
  • Sundown: 5:52 p.m.
  • Day size: 11 hours
• March 5
  • Sundown: 6 p.m.
  • Day size: 11 hours, 18 minutes
• March 12 (Daylight saving time begins)
  • Sundown: 7:10 p.m.
  • Day size: 11 hours, 42 minutes
• March 20 (Spring equinox)
  • Sundown: 7:22 p.m.
  • Day size: 12 hours, 9 minutes

Whereas the following few days have their justifiable share of clouds within the forecast, Sunday and Monday look to remain sunny as a chilly entrance brings winter temperatures again into the combo.

In a briefing Wednesday, the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned Puget Sound may anticipate below-average temperatures beginning Sunday and lasting by a lot of subsequent week, with highs topping out within the 30s and in a single day lows dipping into the 20s.

An opportunity for gentle lowland snow is within the forecast Saturday night time by Sunday morning, with extra probabilities from Monday night time by Wednesday. Presently, forecasters aren’t anticipating vital accumulations.