Perhaps the most famous, and one of my favorite places, is Stonehenge, on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. Around the world, you can still visit many ancient structures that are associated with observing the summer solstice. They noted that the sun’s path across the sky, the length of daylight, and the location of both sunrise and sunset shifted throughout the year. Our ancient ancestors were keen observers of the world around them. The word “solstice” comes from the Latin sol (sun) andstitium (to stop) and on the solstice the noon sun appears to hang stationary in the sky. On the solstice, the sun will not rise precisely in the East - instead it will rise to the north of east and set to the north of west allowing it to be in the sky longer. June 21 will also be the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Throughout our human history, the Summer Solstice has been celebrated by cultures around the world and is, perhaps, still the most widely recognized day as the beginning of summer.įor many of Earth’s creatures, nothing is so fundamental as the length of the day. Astronomers, however, use the summer solstice to mark the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Meteorologists and climatologists may tell you that summer begins on June 1. When I was a child, summer began, for my friends and I, at 3 p.m. In fact, there are different ideas about how to define the seasons.
You know, there is no world organization that designates the official day a new season begins. It is also called Midsummer, and is one of four major solar events during the year that mark the seasonal changes.
This year, the Summer Solstice is on Sunday, June 20. Later you can fire up the barbecue it is June and summer is finally here and with it the Summer Solstice. Time to find your sunglasses and sunblock, put on your swimming suit and hit the beach.
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