I miss a bustling downtown, shopping at Marshall Fields and meeting friends"Under the clock", lunching in the Walnut Room and a photo with Santa. Great memories! We here in southwestern Florida love winter. We are glad to see Summer go and take the heat, humidity, storms and bugs with it. We generally are treated to the best weather in the Country during the six months including November through April. Yes, Summers are pretty nasty here, but those 75 degree January days are worth the Summer suffering.
I loooove Winter. Even all those Chicago winters I trudged through. Love the low winter sun. It creates that moody glow. In Texas now, it never snows. Looking forward to retirement somewhere northerly so I can enjoy the seasons once again. I'll take winter over summer any day in South Carolina!! In summer the humidity is jungle-like and then you have to deal with hornets,wasps,snakes,etc..
Your last line; " I couldn't ask for more, Thank You, and I wish you and all the same. Welcome back Sun What I was hoping for in this article is an answer as to what date is the Earth actually closest to the sun, and how does that effect the amount of daylight, and temperature? Great question! Earth always reaches perihelion a couple weeks after the December solstice and similarly reaches aphelion after the June solstice. On January 2, , we will be at perihelion and approximately 91,, miles away from the Sun.
Read more about it here. This means that the small increase of solar energy that we receive when Earth is at perihelion is not significant enough to result in any noticeable change in our weather.
Bring back the light!! I'm not enjoying the winter so far and it's only the beginning. Feeling alot of claustrophobia this year. The darkness, cold, and snow don't help. The Tradition of the solstices and Equinoxes being the start of the seasons is a very recent tradition. In the Ancient Pagan religions, they are the midpoints of the seasons!
The Winter Solstice is the celebration of the return or rebirth of the Sun God. This marks the days getting longer or the transition from the dark of winter to the light of spring.
I had always been a cold season person Alot can get done when it is light until 9! Winding down, resting just enoughto recharge for the next planting season. Dream and plan mext flowers and veggies, knit while drinking something warm in those very dark days. It's a fantastic renewal cycle. For me, it feels like winter when the first heavy frost kills my vegetable garden. Spring begins when I can plant outside again. But winter is never dreary or dull here; we have snow that melts after a week or two, and beautiful, sometimes deadly, ice that turns the trees into glass ornaments, sparkling in the sun.
I have to be very alert on the roads. During the winter, I lay my plans for next year's garden. The number of daylight hours peaks at summer solstice. The world 'solstice' comes from the Latin solstitium meaning 'Sun stands still', because the apparent movement of the Sun's path north or south stops before changing direction. At the winter solstice, the apparent position of the Sun reaches its most southerly point against the background stars.
Opinion is divided over whether the solstice marks the start of winter or the middle of winter, or whether winter actually starts on 1 December as reckoned by most meteorologists. One reason for the confusion comes from the lag in changes in temperature and weather patterns, which means the coldest temperatures during the day are generally felt some time after the shortest day has passed.
Winter solstice is an important time for cultures across the globe. Under the old Julian Calendar, the winter solstice occurred on 25 December. Here are some of the festivals celebrated internationally, past and present:. The pre-Christian festival, the Feast of Juul, was observed in Scandinavia at the time of the December solstice.
Fires would be lit to symbolise the heat and light of the returning sun and a Yule log was gathered and burnt in the hearth as a tribute the Norse god Thor. Present day Christmas customs and traditions such as the Yule log, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from pagan Juul. Today the event is celebrated in some forms of Modern Paganism. But just when is the shortest day of the year this year — and exactly how much daylight can we expect?
In , the shortest day of the year falls on Tuesday, December The shortest day will see us getting just seven hours, 49 minutes and 42 seconds of daylight in London. The amount of extra daylight will be negligible at first, and you can expect it to be a while before you notice much difference.
This all continues until Sunday, March 27 in , when the clocks once again go forward and British Summer Time begins. Here, too, the effect is greater the farther a location is away from the equator. Sun times at the South Pole in December. During the course of a year, the subsolar point—the spot on the Earth's surface directly beneath the Sun—slowly moves along a north-south axis. Having reached its northernmost point at the June solstice , it starts moving southward until it crosses the equator on the day of the September equinox.
At the December solstice, which marks the southernmost point of its journey, it stops again to start its journey back toward the north. In the months leading up to the December solstice, the position of sunrise and sunset creeps southward. On the day of the solstice, it reaches its southernmost point. After that, the daily path of the Sun across the sky begins to creep northward again. In June , the Northern Hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun, and the subsolar point is north of the equator.
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