It ’s the winter solstice ! Well , technically the wintertime solstice occurred a few hours ago , at 05:30 GMT ( that ’s 12:30 a.m. EST ) , but you get the approximation . The breaker point is , the wintertime solstice just materialize , and that means a few things for those of us subsist in the Northern Hemisphere .
First of all , it means that we just experienced the longest night of 2011 ; over the next few months , the path of the Sun arch through the sky throughout the day will arise higher and gamey until June 20th — at which point the summer solstice will punctuate the longest Clarence Shepard Day Jr. of 2012 . ( For a more elaborated account for what ’s go on at an astronomical story , check outthis military post on the nightfall equinoxfrom back in September . )
https://gizmodo.com/a-haunting-photograph-of-the-fall-equinox-from-space-5843103
If you ’re in the Southern Hemisphere , all these descriptions are just reversed ; for you , today was actually the long of 2011 , and the days to add up will be growing increasingly shorter .
And of track , whether you reside above the equator or below it , today also marks the one year countdown to December 21 , 2012 — a date which , depending on how much you help tocapitalize off the threat of an impending apocalypse , is synonymous with either the terminal times … or just another winter solstice .
As for me , I ’m just activated at the prospect of a little more temperateness ; whether you believe 2012 will bring the closing of the world or not , I think it ’s safe to say that most of us are belike expect forward to the days ahead when we ’ll be able to transpose to and from work in the light of day , as oppose to the down in the mouth dark of late fall / other winter dark .
Top prototype by EUMETSAT ’s Metosat-9 viaMSNBC
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