I'd have become a meteorologist if not for all the nasty math involved

Today at 9.45 am the sun was close enough to show a distinct shadow set with a broad rosy demarcation line and everything (shadow here is broader than in this pic, and won't set any farther than the one in this picture has, but it *does* have a gibbous moon in the shadow part of it)
It is also bright enough for the birds that haven't migrated to start singing again. Here's hoping for clear skies on sunday :)

It is also also quite windy. Not enough to rip buildings apart around here, but with the temperature drop to -8 Celsius, it does make it unpleasant to be outside for any amount of time.

Who's obsessing?

I misestimated earlier. The earth's shadow is actually gone, and technically speaking I guess the sun is up (it just so happens that there is quite a bit of land to the south). It's not hitting the mountains yet, but the mountains do have a faint faint redness to them.

(You'd obsess too if the closest you'd been to daylight in 2 months was one morning when light was reflecting off of high-altitude clouds)

Neat

We're having a windstorm now, started yesterday and expected to last through the weekend.

Unusual: The storm features clear skies along with a shitload of wind blowing towards the sea, rather than wind from the sea and clouds.

Cause: Extreme high pressure over Russia blocking North-atlantic low pressures from moving eastwards. The high is causing the temperature drop and the clear skies, and the pressure gradient is causing the wind.

Thankfully there is a very large island between us and the actual coast.