“Ummm… Happy What?”
The summer solstice happens this year at 5:16 PM on June 21st.
“Just what the heck is the summer solstice, and what does it mean to me?”
The summer solstice, since you asked, is the exact moment when the earth is tilted at an angle that puts the northern hemisphere (that’s us, by the way) at its closest position to the sun. What that means to you and me is that the days from that moment on, begin to get shorter. Well, not actually shorter– they still occupy 24 hours of time. But the part of the day that is dark starts getting a little longer and the part that is light a little shorter on this day.
