Today is the shortest and darkest day of the year

[gopiscrap]

May your find light and warmth today, but more importantly, may you be light and warmth for others

HAPPY SOLSTICE DAY!!!!

[Botany]

1. I thought the 22nd was the shortest day for length of day light time.

But from sundown tonight to sunrise on 12/22 is the longest period of darkness for the year.

[4dog]

17. Sunset has been getting later for several days now

Can anyone explain beyond slightly elliptical orbit?

[BadgerKid]

18. Interesting if you look at earliest sunset and latest sunrise

They are generally not the same days, except perhaps close to the equator. Still, the total daylight is a minimum for a given location on the December solstice.

Reasons are Earth curvature, revolution, and rotation.

[Backseat Driver]

21. Per wunderground's site on the Winter's Solstice

Astronomy

Actual Time 7:52 AM 5:11 PM
Civil Twilight 7:21 AM 5:42 PM
Nautical Twilight 6:47 AM 6:16 PM
Astronomical Twilight6:14 AM 6:49 PM

Length of Visible Light 10 h 20 m
Length of Day 9 h 19 m

Tomorrow will be 0 minutes 0 seconds longer

[sanatanadharma]

2. Super Solstice

Celebrate the solstice, yes, but where I live it is the longest day.
Soon I will be seeing the sun and it's heat retreating.

In the north you will be knowing eventually it will not be snowing.
Felices Fiestas folk

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

10. Yes, half the world is going into Summer. nt

[LeftInTX]

11. Summer sucks here in South Texas. I welcome winter!

Winter is very short down here and summer lasts about 8 months...ugh...

[PortTack]

3. I celebrate the day knowing that all the days coming will be longer!

[Gregory Peccary]

6. Until next year of course when we are again swallowed into darkness

[SergeStorms]

14. They'll all be 24 hour's long.

You'll get more daylight each day, but there's no way to add time to each day. Leap years excluded.
Just being a smart ass, Port Tack. I know what you meant to say.

[momta]

4. My friend has a solstice party

most years (when there's not a pandemic raging with no vaccine available ).

We all bring gift wrapped candles and exchange them, and then after we open them we light the candles and talk about things we are grateful for.

I'm going tonight.

Happy Solstice everyone!

[gopiscrap]

5. that sounds really cool

[Celerity]

7. Happy solstice as well, to you and all

[gopiscrap]

8. Same to you

[BlackSkimmer]

12. Ooh, I love that pic.

Saving.

[MineralMan]

9. And from here, the days start getting longer.

So, we celebrate the Winter Solstice because it's the beginning of better things.

Or something like that, anyhow...

[48656c6c6f20]

13. Or. We just started the March to Spring.

That's hiw I look at it.

[OMGWTF]

15. It's my BD too!

Every year my older brother would say, "You were born on the darkest day of the year" in a spooky voice. Freaked me out as a kid.

[SergeStorms]

23. Happy Birthday, OMGWTF!

Don't think of it as the darkest day, think of it as "Sun's return eve" or something else with a positive spin.

I was born on a Friday the 13th, and I had to find a way to brighten that fact up as well. I used it to believe that because that was my Birthday, that I was immune to all the superstitious bullshit people associate with Friday the 13th, and it worked! I've led a rather charmed life, if I do say so myself.

Never allow others to define who you are. Now stay home and party like it's 1999.

[IronLionZion]

16. Good to know that our days will get brighter after this

Happy Solstice!

[paleotn]

19. Same to ya!

[misanthrope]

20. I love it

After this the daylight lengthens, meaning before long the interminable heat and suffocating humidity will be returning. Then it is another six to seven months of summer.

[BradAllison]

22. Sunrise is still later though

By my almanac.