An interesting idiosyncrasy relating to the summer solstice is that it does not feature the day with the earliest sunrise and latest sunset as is commonly expected. Similarly, on the winter solstice, the sunrise is not the latest and the sunset is not the earliest. However, this day does have the least amount of daylight hours. Be like the sun - shine! Regarding ladymcdonald's comment about June 21 always being the first day of summer prior to the last years When I took Geology in college in the late s is when I learned about the astronomical dates for the equinoxes and how the seasons' first dates fluctuated.
So, the first day of summer was not always listed as June 21 as early as the late s. Of course, the first day of summer has always fluctuated including prior to late s, but people were probably like me Thanks for the interesting article. But most of the U. Hi there! Just before we got your question, we had updated the text to make this clearer. It is not the noon on a clock but the local, or solar, noon, when the shortest shadow occurs.
Unfortunately, the difference between clock time and solar time is a bit complicated. Hope this helps! Actually, the longest day can sometimes occur one day before or after the Solstice. The explanation is a bit lengthy, so I'll just say that the reason is Time Zones.
That's not true or perhaps I misunderstand your statement. Hello Chris. I stand by my statement, but I'll clarify it as follows: Every year the longest day of the year WILL occur one day before or after the Solstice for some places on earth. In order for the date of the Solstice to be the longest day for every place on earth, every latitude would have to keep it's own "solar" clock.
By imposing Time Zones we alter this "perfect" clock in at least 3 ways that I can think of. In areas that share a latitude but have different local clocks, the solstice can occur when some areas are ahead of midnight and some are behind it. So these areas will celebrate the solstice on different dates, but will experience the same actual longest day.
Further, even if Time Zones were 24 equal slices of latitude and there was no DST, there would still be a sliver of latitude every year, abutting either the leading or trailing edge of the Time Zone nearest midnight, for which my initial statement applies.
You stated, "This date marks the official beginning of summer as the Northern Hemisphere angles itself at the point in its orbit closest to the sun, causing the longest day and shortest night of the calendar year.
Around July 4th this year we will be farthest from the sun and closest to the sun in January called perihelion. Thank you for this. Some words apparently got garbled. As you pointed out, in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the North Pole that is tilted most toward the Sun at the June solstice, but the Earth and its poles is definitely not at its perihelion, which is in January.
We have updated the text. Both are always exciting but really difficult to represent them together like this. Thanks so much for your talent, you guys are amazing! Maybe give the dog and cat collar a splash of water and a wish, and The House Number I was on my way to visit with my Ma whom had had a double stroke. While I was going through security my phone rang and when I saw Ma's name I knew she was gone.
I collapsed and I don't remember how I got to the gate, but there I was with Jet Blue employees helping me. Because of the time differential I assumed Ma passed to Spirit on the 21st of June. However, when I spoke to the funeral director he said she had passed on the 20th. I didn't realize the significance of this date until I got home and looked at my calendar which still was turned to June.
I was hoping Ma could hold on until I got there I was told she had a week, it turned out to be days but she was gone before I got there. Now I know why. Though Ma's Spiritual Path was different than mine, she nonetheless understood and respected my Spiritual Path as a Moon Worshiper and an observer of the 8 Spiritual Rites I hold sacred.
I believe this was the last gift she could give me. Summer was our favorite time of year, and strawberry shortcake was our favorite dessert. The date varies between June 20 and June 22 , depending on the year, and the local time zone. A solstice happens when the sun's zenith is at its furthest point from the equator. It's also known as the northern solstice because it occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere.
The point on the horizon where the sun appears to rise and set, stops and reverses direction after this day. On the solstice, the sun does not rise precisely in the east, but rises to the north of east and sets to the north of west, meaning it's visible in the sky for a longer period of time.
Although the June solstice marks the first day of astronomical summer, it's more common to use meteorological definitions of seasons , making the solstice midsummer or midwinter.
In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice, or longest day of the year, takes place between June 20 and 22 each year, this year falling on June It officially marks the beginning of the astronomical summer, which ends with the autumn equinox in September. The sun will rise at 4. There are two solstices each year — a summer and a winter solstice.
Each year, many druids, pagans and Wicca visit stone circles and wait for the sun to appear. English Heritage warned people not to attend Stonehenge or similar structures this year, to prevent large crowds. They planned to live stream the sunrise from Stonehenge, but this was cut short due to public interference at the stones.
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