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  2. What is dark, chilly and short? The winter solstice, and it's ...

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    The winter solstice – marking the longest night and fewest hours of daylight of the year – occurs this Thursday. What is dark, chilly and short? The winter solstice, and it's around the corner

  3. Winter solstice - Wikipedia

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    Other names are the "extreme of winter", or the "shortest day". Since prehistory, the winter solstice has been a significant time of year in many cultures and has been marked by festivals and rites. [8] This is because it is the point when the shortening of daylight hours is reversed and the daytime begins to lengthen again.

  4. Five winter solstice practices that honor the dark time of ...

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    Once again we have entered the time of the winter solstice — when daylight is scarce and the creeping darkness seems to whisper: Slow down.

  5. Solstice - Wikipedia

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    The lengths of time when the sun is up are longer around the summer solstice and shorter around the winter solstice, except near the equator. When the Sun's path crosses the equator, the length of the nights at latitudes +L° and −L° are of equal length. This is known as an equinox. There are two solstices and two equinoxes in a tropical year.

  6. When and what is the winter solstice? Things to know about ...

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    The days are short and the nights are long. That can only mean one thing: The winter solstice is coming. The first day of winter for the northern hemisphere of Earth will begin on Dec. 21 at ...

  7. December solstice - Wikipedia

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    The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 seconds to 50 minutes in excess of 365 days 5 hours. This is longer than the mean year of the Gregorian calendar, which has an excess time of 49 minutes and 12 seconds. Since 2000, it has been growing shorter.

  8. Polar night - Wikipedia

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    The study was conducted across 5 different winter campaigns in the 2010s, bringing in a total of 82 participants. The study found that participants generally slept for longer periods of time in the summer months than the winter months. Additionally, greater amounts of social jetlag were observed in the winter months. [19]

  9. Winter solstice is tonight. In Texas, here’s how it gets you ...

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