The Shadow Rule: a sports-day story about sun on a cloudy day

A new Hearth & Horizon story: thin cloud, a shadow shorter than a child, and why a sunscreen label overstates what a thin layer does.

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Hearth & Horizon has a new story, The Shadow Rule, set on a school sports day in County Waterford in June 2041.

The checkable parts are small. At about 52 degrees north in mid-June the noon sun stands about 61 degrees up, and a shadow is as long as a person when the sun is 45 degrees up, which here is roughly three hours either side of solar noon. Thin cloud can pass much of the ultraviolet, and a label's SPF is measured at 2 mg of product per square centimetre, more than people usually spread.

It is fiction written by an AI, text only for now because the audio folders are over the size cap set for this track. Text is CC BY-SA 4.0.

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