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Winter Solstice, longest night and shortest day The National Observatory of New Zealand. MEDIA RELEASE. Winter Solstice, the longest night and the shortest day. The Winter Solstice is on June 21 at 18:46 (6:46pm); this is when the Sun is at its most Northerly point in the sky.
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How Short Is the Shortest Day of the Year? How much sunlight there is on the shortest day depends on the location and does not necessarily mean the latest sunrise or the earliest sunset. The earliest sunsets usually occur about 2 weeks before the winter solstice and the latest sunrise about 2 weeks afterward. In parts of the Arctic, there is no daylight at all. Variation in the length of sunlight also occurs across the U.S.: Fairbanks, Alaska - 3:42 of sunshine on the shortest day.
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Winter Solstice on December 21st: the longest night of the year Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix. The shortest day of the year, the longest night occurs today, Sunday, December 21st. The so-called Winter solstice is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in the North Hemisphere when the Earth North axis is at the longest distance to the sun.
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- Also, on the first day of astronomical winter, the sun is at its lowest point in our sky at 12:00 noon and, of course, it is the shortest day of the year. Obviously, it is the first day of the summer season in the southern hemisphere.
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- June Solstice: Longest and Shortest Day of the Year. The June solstice is the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the Winter Solstice the Southern Hemisphere. The date varies between June 20 and June 22.
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Longest Day of The Year When is the longest day of the year? The longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere occur during summer solstice which is usually observed on june 21st or sometimes on june 20 UTC (see table 1). In 2016 summer solstice is observed on june 20th, exactly at 22:34 UTC. This is also the day of the shortest day and the longest night in the Southern Hemisphere. The opposite case takes place during december solstice - the shortest day and the longest night occur in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest day and the shortest night are observed in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Summer solstice Saturday: Longest day and shortest night of the year The top image shows how the sun’s declination (height) with respect to the horizon changes throughout the day. (timeanddate.com, used with permission) One thing we see here is that because the summer solstice has the shortest night of the year, the sun also doesn’t drop as far below the horizon at night. If you pay close enough attention throughout the year, you’ll notice that around the solstice twilight lingers longer than usual.
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The First Day of Winter: Winter Solstice 2017 For the Northern Hemisphere, the Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year. In the steady march of the year in the Arctic, the days gradually grow shorter between June and December until the far North plunges into the complete darkness of winter. The trend reverses at Winter Solstice, the point during the year when the Northern Hemisphere is the most inclined away from the Sun. After the solstice, which falls on December 21 or 22 every year, the days begin to lengthen.
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Shortest Day of the Year Shortest Day In Alaska. All of Alaska does not go dark in winter! But the further north you go, the darker it gets. Shortest Day of the Year. On the shortest day of the year (December 21, winter solstice), you’ll find a range of daylight hours depending on where you are: Even though residents of Barrow, the northernmost town in Alaska, won't see the sun for 67 days come winter, they enjoy the midnight sun all summer - over 80 days of uninterrupted daylight.
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Winter solstice 2014: Facts about the shortest day of the year Comments. It's official: Winter is here. The 2014 winter solstice was Sunday, Dec. 21, at 5:03 p.m. CST. It marks the shortest day of the year and the longest night. View full size(National Weather Service). The upshot is that after Sunday, the days will begin to get longer again by several seconds each day.omments. It's official: Winter is here. The 2014 winter solstice was Sunday, Dec. 21, at 5:03 p.m. CST. It marks the shortest day of the year and the longest night. View full size(National Weather Service). The upshot is that after Sunday, the days will begin to get longer again by several seconds each day.
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How Short Is the Shortest Day of the Year? The shortest day of the year falls on the winter solstice. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is usually between December 20 and December 23. In the Southern Hemisphere, the shortest day is between June 20 and June 22. The December solstice occurs when the North Pole is at its furthest tilt away from the sun.
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Time in New Zealand During summer (last Sunday in September until the first Sunday in April) daylight saving time is observed and clocks are advanced one hour. New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT) is 13 hours ahead of UTC, and Chatham Daylight Time (CHADT) 13 hours 45 minutes ahead.uring summer (last Sunday in September until the first Sunday in April) daylight saving time is observed and clocks are advanced one hour. New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT) is 13 hours ahead of UTC, and Chatham Daylight Time (CHADT) 13 hours 45 minutes ahead.
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- Winter Solstice – The Shortest day of the Year. by VirtualAstro on December 21, 2011. Depending on how the calendar falls, the December solstice occurs annually on a day between December 20 and 23. This year, the December solstice will occur at 05:30 UTC (12:30 a.m. EST) on December 22, 2011. While the southern hemisphere is experiencing the long days of summer, the northern hemisphere will have the “winter solstice” – often called the shortest day of the year.
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The longest day or the summer solstice The seasons drawn by Nick Lomb. On Saturday 22 December 2007 at 5:08 pm Australian eastern summer time the Earth is at summer solstice. This is when the Sun appears at its most southerly position for the year and, for those of us in the southern hemisphere, it is the longest day of the year. In Sydney the Sun is above the horizon for 14 hours and 25 minutes.
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- a Wednesday 4 months and 5 days from today. The first day of winter is known as the winter solstice. It is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Days Until: Christmas Eve Christmas New Years Eve New Years Day MLK Day Groundhog Day Valentines Day Presidents Day Easter.
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- a Friday 2 years 4 months and 7 days from today. The first day of winter is known as the winter solstice. It is the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Days Until: Christmas Eve Christmas New Years Eve New Years Day MLK Day Groundhog Day Valentines Day Presidents Day St Patricks Day.
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What Is the Longest Day of the Year? On the summer solstice, there is maximum daylight and the night is very short. This is the peak of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Arctic Circle, there are 24 hours of daylight, as the sun does not set. This day marks the winter solstice for regions in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia and New Zealand experience winter with very short days and long nights. In the Antarctic Circle, there are 24 hours of darkness.
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Shortest Day of the Year All of Alaska does not go dark in winter! But the further north you go, the darker it gets. On the shortest day of the year (December 21, winter solstice), you’ll find a range of daylight hours depending on where you are:
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History of daylight saving in NZ New Zealand first introduced daylight saving time in 1927. The current times have been fixed since 2007. 1868 — New Zealand officially set a national standard time — called New Zealand Mean Time — at 11 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). 1927 — New Zealand first observed daylight saving time. The dates and time difference were changed several times over the following years. 1941 — New Zealand summer time was extended by emergency regulations to cover the whole year.
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June Solstice: Longest and Shortest Day of the Year In the Southern Hemisphere, where the June solstice is known as the shortest day of the year, it marks the first day of astronomical winter, but the middle of winter in meteorological terms.
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Summer Solstice 2014, Longest Day Of The Year, Arrives Saturday Even though Earth's oceans and atmosphere soak up the most rays on the summer solstice, it takes them several weeks to re-radiate that energy back to us. For those in the southern hemisphere, June 21 marks the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Solstice comes from the Latin words sol and sistere meaning sun stands still--a reference to how, when seen from Earth, the sun appears to pause before its position in the sky reverses direction.
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Summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon: Everything you need to know about the longest day of the year Summer Solstice and Strawberry Moon: Everything you need to know about the longest day of the year. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, a day falling around late June when there are approximately 17 hours of light. The name comes from the Latin solstitium meaning “sun stands still”. It happens because the sun stops heading north at the Tropic of Cancer and then returns back southwards.
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Daylight saving time The Winter Solstice, which can be on the 21st of December or on the 22nd of December, is the day on which there is the least daylight hours, often called the shortest day. On …the last Sunday in March, Daylight Savings Time begins in Spain. The clocks go forward by one hour. That means that there are only 23 hours in that day, so that can also be said to be the shortest day.
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Shortest Day of the Year All of Alaska does not go dark in winter! But the further north you go, the darker it gets. Shortest Day of the Year. On the shortest day of the year (December 21, winter solstice), you’ll find a range of daylight hours depending on where you are: Even though residents of Barrow, the northernmost town in Alaska, won't see the sun for 67 days come winter, they enjoy the midnight sun all summer - over 80 days of uninterrupted daylight. Anchorage enjoys a more modest amount of daylight in summer than Barrow - but that's still a good 19 hours between sunrise and sunset on the longest day of the year, Summer Solstice.
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Winter Solstice, longest night and shortest day Wednesday, 15 June 2005, 11:50 am. Winter Solstice, the longest night and the shortest day. The Winter Solstice is on June 21 at 18:46 (6:46pm); this is when the Sun is at its most Northerly point in the sky. At the middle of the day on June 21, it reaches its lowest altitude, from the Northern horizon, for the year. Brian Carter, Senior Astronomer at the Carter Observatory says, “This means that the longest night is June 21/22 and the shortest day is June 21”.
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Winter solstice: celebrating the shortest day of the year CBC News Posted: Dec 20, 2011 3:11 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 19, 2013 1:13 PM ET. From Stonehenge in England to the Kokino observatory in Macedonia, people gather every year to mark the winter solstice. Dec. 21 is the shortest day of the year, in terms of daylight hours, in the Northern Hemisphere. At 12:11 p.m. ET on Dec. 21, the hemisphere begins its tilt back toward the sun, marking the winter solstice in this part of the world and slowly leading to longer days.