Londoners have have had a slightly temperamental few days weather-wise, with temperatures all over the place. T-shirt weather lunchtime walks are (slowly but surely) on their way back, and gone are the days of cranking up the heating and shivering away while you work. Yup, things are looking pretty rosy (if you don’t think about the weather forecast for next week, that is).
That being said, the sun is still disappearing pretty damn early (6:28pm today, for example). But this weekend, our luck is about to change.
For the first time since September 23 (more than six bloody months), the sun will set after 7pm. Sunday, March 31 is the hallowed day, so get those barbecues out now, because we know the only way is up from here. We may have to lose an hour of sleep when the clocks go back at the weekend, but if that speeds up the process of late sunsets then I’m all for it.
According to tracking site Time and Date, the sunset time will jump from 6:31pm on March 30 to 7:32pm (!!) on March 31. Then, by April 17, we’ll be into the 8pm territory, meaning after-work-drinks-in-the-sun season is well and truly full steam ahead. What a lovely thought.
Now, if the rain could hold off a bit, that’d be just peachy. We won’t count those chicken, though.