First Day of Summer! Summer Begins Tomorrow June 21 at 1:16PM EDT in The Northern Hemisphere. The sun will reach the point where it is farthest north of the Eequator. This will also be "The Longest Day" of the year. There will be more Daylight than Darkness.
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The Illustration below is from NASA:
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According to Yahoo News,
"Summer in the Northern Hemisphere will officially arrive on Tuesday (June 21) at 1:16 p.m. EDT (17:16 Universal Time)... At the same time, winter officially begins for the Southern Hemisphere.
At that moment, the sun will reach the point where it is farthest north of the celestial equator. To be more precise, when the summer solstice occurs, the sun will appear to be shining directly overhead at a point on the Tropic of Cancer (latitude 23.5 degrees north) in the Great Bahama Bank, roughly halfway between Andros Island and central Cuba."
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Photo Below is Courtesy of Free Images.co.UK
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NASA says,
"At solstice, the sun will appear to be shining directly overhead for a point on the Tropic of Cancer (latitude 23.5 degrees north) to the north of the Yucatan Peninsula, over the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
This changing of the seasons takes place because the plane of Earth’s equator is tilted 23.5 degrees to our orbit around the sun."
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Photo Below is Courtesy of Free Images.co.UK
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The First Day of Summer is Tomorrow! Summer Begins Tomorrow June 21 at 1:16PM EDT in The Northern Hemisphere.
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