The clock has now sprung forward an hour, and whether one welcomes the time change or not, the sun is now setting an hour later, giving the qathet region more sunlight later into the evening.
The almost mid-March temperature was a bit cooler at three degrees this morning, Tuesday, March 11, and will rise to four degrees this afternoon, according to the Weatherhood app. There will be a mix of sun and cloud with some precipitation throughout the week.
In the early morning of Wednesday, March 12, the wind will pick up to 19 kilometres an hour but slow down to seven kilometres an hour in the evening.
The planet Venus has been hanging low in the west after sunset at the beginning of March, but by mid-month it quickly drops out of the sky, getting lost in the glare of sunset, according to NASA science. By March 15, the planets Jupiter and Mars will be seen high overhead, in a clear night’s sky in qathet.
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