Winter begins today with arrival of the Solstice
The Winter Solstice in this part of the world is today, Sunday at 3:03 p.m. according to timeanddate.com. The Winter Solstice occurs when the sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun.
Depending on the Gregorian calendar, the December solstice occurs annually on a day between Dec. 20 and Dec. 23.
On this date, all places above a latitude of 66.5 degrees north (Arctic Polar Circle) are now in darkness, while locations below a latitude of 66.5 degrees south (Antarctic Polar Circle) receive 24 hours of daylight.
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In layman's terms, all of that scientific information, listed above, means that beginning on Monday, Dec. 22, we slowly begin to move back to the long warm days of summertime. Yahoo! Summer is coming!