Rewinding to Sunday, December 16, 2001…
Sunday · The Bronx, New York, United States
Kai, you arrived on December 16, 2001 in The Bronx.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 42°F in The Bronx.
42°F/ 5°C high
Low of 26°F · dry · wind up to 8 mph
The sun rose at 7:13 am and set at 4:28 pm — 9h 15m of daylight.
Daily estimates from NASA POWER on a regional grid, using local solar days. Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
5% lit · 2.1 days into its cycle
Looking up from The Bronx that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Jupiter, Saturn without a telescope.
It was winter in your half of the world.
The Moon was 244,925 miles away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “U Got It Bad”
by Usher — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 6 weeks, taking over from “Family Affair”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
THE BRONX · 2001-12-16
BREAD COSTS 1.8× WHAT IT DID
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
1,298 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
24 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Sunday's child, under Sagittarius.
Star sign
Sagittarius
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Snake
Metal Snake
Birthstone
Turquoise
for your month
Birth flower
Narcissus
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Sunday
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