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Clouds hamper annual winter solstice walk in Murrysville
Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review
Connor Painter, 9, of Murrysville looks through a viewing window in a nature blind at the Westmoreland Conservancy’s Morosini Nature Reserve in Murrysville on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023.
Westmoreland Conservancy officials got decent weather but unfortunate cloud cover for their annual winter solstice walk on Thursday evening.
The shortest day of the year saw the sun setting at 4:57 p.m.
About 16 participants were hoping to see it in spectacular fashion from an observation deck built by a local Eagle Scout at the conservancy’s Morosini Nature Reserve in Murrysville.
But with heavy cloud cover, just a sliver of sunset was visible at the horizon.
Friday marks the official start of winter, and daylight will continue to last a little longer each day until the summer solstice on June 20 .
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