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First Day of Summer 21 June – Find out more

Today is June 21st which means that not only is it the official first day of summer but it’s the Summer Solstice too.

This means that it is the day with the longest hours of daylight in the Northern hemisphere and the shortest in the Southern.

Solstices occur twice a year, when the tilt of the earth is most oriented toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun to reach its northernmost and southernmost extremes.

Apparently the name is derived from the Latin sol and sistere, because at the solstices, the Sun stands still in declination; that is, its apparent movement north or south comes to a standstill.

BY Patrick Altoft AT 11:38pm ON Friday, 20 June 2008

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  • http://www.adguru.org adguru

    Thanks for this post.

  • http://www.pingable.org Simon Ward

    And the number 1 search term in google trends for today is…. :P

  • http://www.directorypond.com/ Wallace

    yesterday was the hottest day this year in Hong Kong…

  • Rob

    Interestingly since this is the longest day, and the astronomical beginning of Summer, spring has as many long days as summer.

    Rob
    Perfume Point

  • http://youtube SEAN BENNETT

    I LOVE THE SUN REALLY ITS NICE AND WOUM

  • Kitty

    Actually the 20th (Friday), not the 21st was the Summer Solstice this year, due to 2008 being a leap year. NIce explanation though :)

  • fiona

    It looks like the dullest day in Belfast its rainning :( Not a good start to summer…..

  • Peter Poolman

    And today Holland is going to kick ass in the quarter finals :P

  • http://SummerSolstice Mike

    Don’t be daft. It isn’t the first day of summer. Midsummer’s day is only a couple of days away!

  • Shain McLeod

    Well its cold wet and cloudy here in Coalville, Leicestershire lol so much for the first day of summer.

  • Colin Milne

    If 21 June is the first day of Summer and 24 June is Midsummer’s day, does that mean that Summer ends on 27Jun?

  • israel

    the beginning of the summer!???
    Well, not in UK!! LOL
    We have a horrible weather over here!!:(

    Cheers and thanks for the post

  • anon

    ha! and it’s raining in birmingham, england :(

  • http://pouringwithrain Justine

    it might be be the first dai of summer but it isnt reely its like pouring with rain and dull!!

  • http://www.hawick.net Cammy

    And it is raining here in Hawick – Scotland : (

  • Sally

    Does this mean it will rain for the rest of the summer !! as we have had rain ALL day

  • http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/first-day-of-summer-21-june/#addcommentanchor shakib

    how come it is a bad cloudy day in central london then how come it is the first of summer today?

    could someone please tell me why and please send me a satellite picture of the earth tilting it will be very great

    thanks

  • http://www.model-car-world.co.uk Steve

    first day of summer and its raining in the U.K… :-(

  • James

    well over here in repton, derbyshire its not lookin very summery at all!!!

  • hollie

    hi i love love summer and it time to enjoy

  • Emily

    No offence first day of summer and its bludy freeezing over in england :(.
    ahh well hope it gets beta :D x x

  • Alan

    first day of summer in england ( raining heaily!!!)

  • http://google.co.uk shafjd

    start of summer , dont seem so, waitin all year for summer but this time its too late.

  • Conrad

    Congratulations. This post should drive a fair amount of traffic.

  • http://www.limobroker.co.uk Limo Hire

    I wish it was hot here today! lol.

  • Barry

    The summer solstice is otherwise known as midsummer, NOT “the first day of summer”. If we accept that the seasons consist of 3 months each, then summer begins about 6 weeks BEFORE the solstice/midsummer; that is, around 10th May.

  • http://WWW.CANDIDVIEW.ORG.UK VITA

    SUMMER, BUT WAS RAINING, AND NOW IT IS VERY COLD :(

  • http://WWW.CANDIDVIEW.ORG.UK VITA

    SUMMER, BUT TODAY WAS RAINING AND NOW IT IS VERY COLD :(

  • Mike

    Yeah, first day of summer and guess what? It’s raining here in England :|. lol

  • Dimitri Vinogradov

    How CAN the longest day of the year possibly be the first day of summer? Surely it’s the middle of summer, with days with long hours of daylight distributed evenly both sides of the longest day.

  • Aimee

    Haha , yeah summer , right now in england it’s 20:37 and it’s bucketing it down , Some summber this is going to be!

    Crummy!

  • Aimee

    HAHAHAHA

  • Ian Gordon

    I always thought pre Christian peoples- like the Celts, celebrated the start of Summer in May- with the festival of Belatane.

    I also hear on Classic FM this morning- that Midsummer’s Day is celebrated on the 24th June…

    Typical artsy ‘Historian’, confusing the issue..;-)

    Thanks for posting.

    Ian

  • Taposhi

    Thanks for sharing that very useful piece of news!

  • http://londonfish.blogspot.com/ siddiq

    but we already felt heat in April, so what does it mean First Day of Summer? i didn’t get it, summer start in April or June?

  • http://www.limobroker.co.uk Limo Hire

    It wasn’t so nice here in Bath today!

  • http://www.micro-laptop.com Gav

    I’d just like to say, that midwinters day down here in Sydney was beautiful and I went sunbathing on Coogee Beach for the day.

    Seems better than mid-summers back in Blighty by all accounts!

  • http://www.limoblog.co.uk Limo News

    Looks like we’re about to have a great summer. (YEAH RIGHT) lol.

    Today is slightly better but not as good as we expected.

    I suppose it never is in the UK. Especially where we are, in the Northwest.

  • http://www.hummerlimohire.co.uk/ Hummer limo hire

    Oh well, I guess we’ll have to wait for this day next year now, because the weather here in Manchester never got much better.

  • Dave Hitchborne

    If the first day of summer is the 21st June and midsummer’s day is the 24th June, then summer is only 8 days long. Sounds about right to me considering the temperatures we had.

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  • http://www.hirelimobirmingham.co.uk/ Limo Hire Birmingham

    Hi all,

    We have not has much summer this year again. Why does this keep happening to us in the UK.

  • jodie

    wikid

  • jodie

    it is not really sunni now though lol

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