Happy summer solstice! It's the 1st day
of summer, the longest day of 2023. What
it means
USA Today Network - Florida,
by
C. A. Bridges
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/21/2023 9:05:28 AM
Summer is finally here, which may come as a bit of a shock to Floridians who have been dealing with sweltering weather for weeks.
June 21 is the first official day of summer. Here's what you need to know.
When is the first day of summer?
Wednesday, June 21, 2023, marks the summer solstice and the first official day of summer for the Northern Hemisphere. For the Southern Hemisphere, it's the first day of winter.What is the summer solstice?
There are two solstices. The winter solstice marks the day with the least amount of sunlight (the shortest day in the year) and the summer solstice marks the day with the largest amount of sunlight
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Axeman 6/21/2023 9:34:36 AM (No. 1496610)
Snow in Oregon. Frost here in the coastal mountains of CA. This is how an Ice Age begins. A little bit more snow falls than melts each year and the whole climate soon shifts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 6/21/2023 9:50:44 AM (No. 1496619)
Thank you God for summer, fall, winter, and spring!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Northcross 6/21/2023 10:02:22 AM (No. 1496633)
What it means- The daytime hours will get shorter in the Northern Hemisphere. End of article.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
felixcat 6/21/2023 11:33:37 AM (No. 1496709)
Hey - it is my birthday!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/21/2023 11:44:19 AM (No. 1496718)
What? A solstice? Has this ever happened before? Does anyone know? Please help me out here. Thanks.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MissNan 6/21/2023 12:00:32 PM (No. 1496736)
Happy Birthday felixcat! To me this means Fall Is Coming!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 6/21/2023 12:07:16 PM (No. 1496741)
It is also the Feast Day of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, and the liturgical color is white!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Geoman 6/21/2023 12:23:21 PM (No. 1496755)
I recall being on a capstone geology field course of the American West during the summer of '81. We were on week six of our eight week course and had reached our planned maximum distance from our starting point in Central Texas. Our group of 16 aspiring geologists set up camp high up on a mountain in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. We had managed to locate the headwaters (snowmelt trickles adjacent to our campsite) of three major rivers in the western U.S., two of which ultimately drain into the Pacific. I was a married graduate student and it was my birthday, so my wife had mailed a load of cookies to one of our 4 pre-planned mail stops, located in towns along our planned route. Between 930 and 10pm, our professor declared that our cooking, clean-up, and report writing duties were secure for the night and that it was time to consume the big box of cookies. The reason I remember it so well is that at 10pm it was still broad daylight at our latitude and elevation, and it was blessedly cool, temperature wise. The moon was visible in a waning Gibbous phase. The entire surreal scene gave new meaning to "the longest day of the year."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zoidberg 6/21/2023 3:43:41 PM (No. 1496889)
I just listened to Joe Satriani's "Summer Song."
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 6/21/2023 4:11:23 PM (No. 1496918)
#8, that was kinda beautiful, G-man.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/21/2023 11:45:29 PM (No. 1497196)
Summer solstice, some people get nutty about it.
A few years back we planned on spending the night at a hotel in Nancy, France on a driving vacation. We got to our hotel about 4 pm, and were informed that the reservations were somehow "cancelled". OK, checked with our booking agent and got a new booking, and the address. We started to drive across town about 6:30 pm....and started to notice groups of eight or ten people walking together, then lots of groups, all walking in the direction we were driving in. ???
And then we saw police blocking off the side streets as we passed them....What the heck?
And now there were LOTS of people walking and blocking traffic, and finally traffic just stopped, barely crawling. My wife called the booking agent and said "We can't even get to this address, some huge crowds and most of the streets are blocked off, and it is very noisy, some concert or something, we need a hotel somewhere miles away from this"
Got a new address, put it into the GPS and fought out of the huge people and car jam for the next hour and a half or more. Finally got clear, drove about 10 miles to a hotel and checked in, and they informed us that their restaurant was just closing...it now being about five minutes to 9 pm. We appealed for mercy, and got a reprieve. They served a quick dinner and we made it to our room by about 9:45.
There was some damned pagan "solar solstice" event going on with rock bands all night and who knows what else, clogging up the entire city center. And we'd never have gotten any sleep in the second hotel we were directed to, it was a block from the peak noise zone.
The summer solstice was a giant PITA that year, normally no big deal for us at home, except the sadness of days now getting inexorably shorter until Dec 21st.
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