Today is the shortest day of the year for the Southern Hemisphere, otherwise known as Winter Solstice.
Winter Solstice is scheduled to occur at 4.24pm today, when the sun’s position in the sky reaches its farthest point north of the Equator. It means today will have the least amount of daylight of any day for the year.
In Auckland, this equates to just nine hours, 37 minutes and 58 seconds, and in Invercargill, just eight hours, 35 minutes and 5 seconds worth of daylight.
Starting tomorrow, the days in the Southern Hemisphere will start to get longer and the moon larger, as the South Pole begins to tilt towards the sun.
During the Winter Solstice, there is no sunlight at all south of the Antarctic Circle – they have 24 hours of darkness. However, if you want to experience a day with no sunset will have to head to the Arctic Circle where the sun will remain overhead for a full 24 hours!
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that is so awesome
that is so awesome 🙂
AWESOME SUFF
THE STRAWBERRY MOON!
Mum says it’s a harvest moon. And where I live which is in Auckland, it looks yellow not red.
good four you
awesome stuff
so shortesrt
YAY SUMMERS NEARLY HERE #SELFIES ALL ROUND??????????????????
This is awesome
Attention: IT’S ALL MOST SUMMER! GET READY FOR THE HEAT!
Wow! And its double dark cuz its overcast today!
I think that it’s gonna be cool
That is quite interesting.I when I came from school it feet ilke that I finish early at the end of the year.☺
Hooray! More sleep!
So cool and interesting! Summers on its way!
I like winter more than summer.
that’s today 🙂
cool
It weird because it doesn’t look like strawberry ?i think it just look like a normal moon? on that video it does NOT look like a strawberry moon ??and that what i think.
?+?= STRAWBERRY MOON