Summer Solstice 2022: 11 Facts about the Year’s Longest Day
If you’re a person who can’t wait to enjoy the high temperatures, blazing sun, heat and summer activities, then you’ve been waiting for this day — the summer solstice. The first day of summer 2022 is Tuesday, June 21.
Summer Solstice 2022: 11 Facts about the Year’s Longest Day
Here are 10 things you need to know about the day:
First Five:
- Summer 2022 — also known as “Summer solstice” — officially began at 5:14 a.m. on June 21.
- This the summer solstice. is largest day of the year, with the greatest hours of sunlight. Staten Island will get a little more than 15 hours of daylight on June 21..
- According to the source, Old Farmer’s Almanac, The official start of the year is the solstice. Arrival of Earth at the point in its the direction of the North Pole its greatest tilt (approximately (23.5 degrees)) toward the sun, which results in the longest day most compact night of the calendar year, marks the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. The longest “day” here refers to the total number of daylight hours.
- Sunday is today is the day to apply sunscreen Today is the sun’s highest point, and the solstice sun’s colossal height provides a high UV index making it easy to become sunburned.
- The summer equinox not only ushers in Not only is it shortest day of the year, but it’s also the longest night. night. longest the time between dawn and dusk. Because the sun crosses the horizon at a shallow angle, the sky is illuminated for a little longer before sunrise and after sunset.
Final Five:
- Because of the height of the sun, The year’s shortest shadow you can cast will be possible. at noon on the summer solstice..
- It always It doesn’t happen on the same day every time. The June solstice does not occur on the same day every year. based not on a precise time or date but on the moment the sun crosses the celestial equator at its farthest north., according to the Almanac. Therefore, the It won’t always be the same day when the solstice falls. — and it currently begins on June 20 and ends on June 22.
- The word solstice derives from the Latin solstitium, which is made up of the words sol (sun) and stitium (time) (still or stopped).
- Summer’s first day is rarely the hottest. Despite The hottest day of summer typically doesn’t happen until July or August; the Northern Hemisphere receives its most direct sunlight on the summer solstice. For a few more weeks, the amount of solar energy coming at the amount entering the ground exceeds the amount exiting the earth, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac.
- Despite the fact that The longest period of daylight occurs on the day of the solstice., the Almanac states that the earliest sunrises of the year take place prior to the summer solstice, almost before the June solstice by one week. Because elliptical Earth orbit and the inclination of the Earth’s spinning axis, sunrises occur at specific times. The year’s last sunsets will happen several days following the solstice, depending on your latitude..
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