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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSummer Solstice tomorrow, longest day of the year,
sunrise at 5:42 am and sunset at 8:33 pm, but forecast here is for RAIN!
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Summer Solstice tomorrow, longest day of the year, (Original Post)
elleng
Jun 2014
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Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)1. That's what you say.
I swear to all that is holy that TODAY is the longest day of the year. I looked at the clock an hour ago and it said 1pm. I just checked again and it's only 1:17p. Since when does 17 minutes take an hour to pass?
Weekend is avoiding me.
elleng
(130,895 posts)2. SORRY, Wut!
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)3. That's true in most of the Northern Hemisphere
(below the Arctic Circle), but not in most of the the Southern Hemisphere, where the solstice today or tomorrow is the shortest day of the year.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)4. :)!
Boomerproud
(7,952 posts)5. I gotta work.
Hope it's not a 10-hour day to "celebrate".
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)6. I'm still trying to get past January 2nd 2014......
I think this year has just flown by.....longest day of the year tomorrow?? Yikes..... now the days start getting shorter. Yikes. It's just going by way to fast for me.