{"id":42077,"date":"2025-08-02T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42077\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T15:13:09","slug":"soak-up-the-sun-while-you-can-as-daylight-fades-fast-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42077\/","title":{"rendered":"Soak up the sun while you can, as daylight fades fast in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published on Aug. 2, 2025, 12:43 AM<\/p>\n<p>Most cities across Canada lose at least an hour and a half of illumination through the month of August<\/p>\n<p>Summer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/forecasts\/canada-weather-forecast-outlook-august-2025\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">heat continues roasting<\/a> communities across Canada in August.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/seasonal\/welcome-to-solar-summer-the-most-intense-sunshine-of-the-year\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the intense sunshine<\/a> that primed the atmosphere earlier in the season is losing some of its lustre here in the latter half of summer.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to take advantage of long evenings after work while they\u2019re still around, as daylight fades fast through the month.<\/p>\n<p>AUGUST OUTLOOK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/forecasts\/canada-weather-forecast-outlook-august-2025\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Summer in Canada steams ahead in August, with a few hints of fall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/4n5rrW8gA5kujppbhk73IF\/bad92411e9ceec870b40351c39fa5824\/Hours_of_illumination_lost_in_August.png\" alt=\"Hours of illumination lost in August\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hours_of_illumination_lost_in_August.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Most cities across the country are on track to lose at least an hour and a half of illumination\u2014including those twilight hours\u2014between the beginning of August and the beginning of September.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of daylight lost throughout the month increases with latitude as the sun sinks lower on the horizon with each passing day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/city\/ca\/ontario\/toronto\/current\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto<\/a> is on track to lose 1 hour and 29 minutes of illumination by the end of the month. Folks in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/city\/ca\/saskatchewan\/saskatoon\/current\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Saskatoon<\/a> will lose just over 2 hours of light throughout the course of August, while that value jumps to a whopping 4 hours and 21 minutes of illumination lost for those in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/city\/ca\/nunavut\/iqaluit\/current\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Iqaluit<\/a>, Nunavut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on Aug. 2, 2025, 12:43 AM Most cities across Canada lose at least an hour and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306,2001],"class_list":["post-42077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}