June Solstice (Approximately June 20-21) The June solstice begins summer in the Northern Hemisphere and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
The March and September equinoxes, meanwhile, mark the two days of each year when day and night are of equal length. Finally got round to it.Īnd one with the cross quarter days calculated according to Merlin of England's method of defining two "equidistants" halfway between each pair of solstices (WS to SS and SS to WS) and then the cross quarter days being halfway between equidistants and solstices. Since ages humans adjust their lives to the annual seasons, which are determined by these four major events, Quarter Days vernal equinox, summer solstice. The June and December solstices mark the longest and shortest days of the year.
I've been meaning to do this diagram for a while, showing why equinoxes aren't halfway between solstices. There are only two times of the year when the Earths axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a. Shadows cast in May are long, because the sun is low in the sky. The sun rises at the North Pole on the Spring Equinox, approximately March 21, and the sun rises higher in the sky with each advancing day, reaching a maximum height at the Summer Solstice, approximately June 21. Numbers of days between solstices and equinoxes The darkness lasts until the beginning of dawn in early March. Quick links to various main topics in my blog
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