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For the Record: Summer’s here (duh)

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Staff

You may have noticed that warmer weather has settled in. We have scientific proof of that thanks to a friend of ours — a local deli owner — who with the aid of a highly accurate, instant-read thermometer recorded temperatures on downtown sidewalks last week of well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Further research through the United States Naval Observatory tells us that our planet is tilting in such a way that the Northern Hemisphere experiences more direct sunlight and longer days, which apparently warms things up a bit.

The solstice — the moment when the sun is directly above the Tropic of Cancer at the International Date Line — is on June 20 at 7:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, which is also the last minute of the day in Universal Time.

You may be interested to know that this is the first time the solstice has occurred in the last minute of the 20th since 1896.

The Navy and others tells us it’s a long slow slide toward winter after that. We’ll let you know the minute that happens.

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