ORLANDO, Fla. – The summer season solstice is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs every year and starts the summer time within the Northern Hemisphere.
It’s when the solar reaches its easiest level within the sky, ensuing within the longest duration of daylight hours within the Northern Hemisphere and the least quantity of daylight within the Southern Hemisphere.
It starts on June 21 at 10:58 am ET, and Orlando is predicted to look 14.9 hours of daylight on nowadays.
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The astronomical science in the back of this phenomenon is because of the Earth’s rotational axis, which is an imaginary line thru Earth’s heart and the geographic North and South poles.
It isn’t at a proper attitude to the planet’s orbital trail across the solar. As an alternative it’s tilted at an attitude of 23.5° from vertical and on account of that tilt, Earth has seasons.
Because the Earth orbits the solar each and every 12 months, its axis all the time issues in the similar route in house. This ends up in the Northern Hemisphere being angled towards the solar all over part of the 12 months, then clear of the solar for the opposite part.
When the North Pole is closest to the solar, it’s known as the summer season solstice within the Northern Hemisphere. Against this, when the North Pole issues farthest from the solar, it’s known as the wintry weather solstice, which is the primary day of wintry weather, astronomically.
The summer season solstice does no longer happen at the similar day each and every 12 months. In reality, it’s no longer according to a calendar date and time. It is determined by when the solar reaches the northernmost level on Earth, which is the North Pole from the celestial equator. For this reason, the date shifts between June 20, 21 and 22.
The phrase “solstice” comes from the Latin phrase, solstitium — sol (solar) and stitium (nonetheless or stopped).
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