Seattle's 6 p.m. sunsets are here — and so is mild, dry weather ( www.seattletimes.com )

Tuesday marked a sure sign of the approach of the forthcoming season: For the first time this year, the sun set after 6 p.m. in Seattle.

As things outside are blooming and brightening, we’ll continue our ride of increasing daylight through June 21, when we’ll have nearly 16 hours of daylight and a 9:11 p.m. sunset.

But if you can’t wait until June for later sunsets, you’re in luck. Just around the corner, on Sunday, we’ll all spin our clocks one hour forward due to daylight saving time. The sun will set that day at 7:08 p.m., according to Time and Date.

Winter will have us in its frigid grasp a little longer this week before making room for springlike conditions.

It will be a “very quiet” start to the day Wednesday in Western Washington, according to the National Weather Service, although a large swatch of clouds over the Olympic Peninsula may seep eastward into the Interstate 5 corridor by the morning commute.