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What Does “Winter Solstice” Mean?
On the winter solstice, you'll notice that it has the shortest day and longest night of the year, especially depending on how high in latitude you are.
READ MOREIs An “Equinox” The Same As A “Solstice”?
The word equinox comes from Latin and means "equality of night and day." So ... what's a solstice then?
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The solstice occurs in the predawn hours, making this the shortest day of the year.
D.C.-AREA FORECAST: CLEARING BUT BLUSTERY TODAY AND REMAINING CHILLY INTO THE WEEKENDDAVID STREITDECEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Right around the solstice, they may appear as one overlapping body above the horizon.
My mother’s friend upheld her end of the bargain, but then there I was, a solstice changeling, revealing my true name.
DAWN OF THE HELIOCENE - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENSUMMER PRAETORIUSSEPTEMBER 16, 2020NAUTILUS
The estival solstice of Meton, the Athenian, corresponds with this day, in the 87th Olympiad.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
The June sun was already shining at its solstice, and the time to leave for Icla's home had come.
URANIACAMILLE FLAMMARION
It then turns towards the winter solstice, as far as Issus, and thence immediately makes a bend to the south to Phœnicia.
At winter solstice, the vertical rays strike 23½° S. latitude, the Tropic of Capricorn.
DESERTSA. S. WALKER
So, in Adelie Land, short spells of calm weather may be expected over a period of barely three months around the summer solstice.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSON
From this time its declination increases day by day until the summer solstice, when, in Joshua's time, it was nearly 24° north.
THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLEE. WALTER MAUNDER
Thus its daily path at the time of the winter solstice, about December 21, can be represented by the circle Xmn′.
ASTRONOMICAL LORE IN CHAUCERFLORENCE M. GRIMM
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