Thailand to experience longest night of the year tomorrow

Here’s another cool way to visualize the extreme of the winter solstice. Washington, D.C., will experience fewer than nine and a half hours of sunlight, and more northern cities such as NY and Montreal will see even less.

A Wiccen woman casting a circle at dawn on the winter solstice at Stonehenge A druid ceremony is held during the Winter Solstice at Stonehenge Pagans and druids have celebrated the solstice for thousands of years Will the days start to get longer?

The reason Earth has seasons is because the planet is tilted, which causes the impact of the light from the sun to change throughout the year for different regions. Google’s family of stones is rolling into the Summer Solstice, welcoming warmer days with the help a strawberry-stealing squirrel. You might notice how low the sun appears in the sky at local noon.

The summer solstice is the day with most daylight hours of any in the year.

The days will finally be getting longer.

Winter solstice celebrations take place around the world.

Therefore two weeks before the solstice, for example – the sun reaches its “noontime” position at 11:52 a.m. local standard time. While the practice of eating a nice ham on Christmas might seem innocuous, the tradition dates back to the common ritual slaughter that Germanic other pagan societies had during the winter solstice. For part of the year, one side of the Earth spends more time pointed toward the sun, which is what we call summer.

It is over eight hours shorter than the longest day of the year in June.

This year, the winter solstice occurred on the morning of 21 December and marks the day which will have less daylight than any other this year.

According to The Telegraph, the solstice can happen on December 20, 21, 22 or 23, though December 20 or 23 solstices are rare.

Winter solstice has come, bringing the longest nights for 2016.

On the winter solstice, places south of the equator have day lengths greater than 12 hours, while all locations north of the equator have day lengths less than 12 hours, AccuWeather said.

In England, the people descend on Stonehenge to experience the the solstice for themselves every year. But time varies each year due to the discrepancy between the solar time and the time we use. As TIME has previously reported, ancient monuments are the only clue as to when humans started tracking solstices.