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What are the summer months? In the northern hemisphere, summer spans from the end of June to the end of September. On Sept. 22 , the autumnal equinox marks the start of fall.
In turn, this discrepancy causes us to have a Leap Day every four years, which shifts the start of summer between June 20 and June 22, depending on the year (at least in the Northern Hemisphere).
For many, Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, but the season does not technically begin for another month after the holiday.
[5] [6] Under meteorological definitions, all seasons are arbitrarily set to start at the beginning of a calendar month and end at the end of a month. [5] This meteorological definition of summer also aligns with the commonly viewed notion of summer as the season with the longest (and warmest) days of the year, in which daylight predominates.
Short format: dd/mm/yyyy (Day first, month and year in left-to-right writing direction) in French and Fulah. Gregorian dates follow the same rules but tend to be written in yyyy/mm/dd (Day first, month number, and year in right-to-left writing direction) format in N'ko language.
The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year in that hemisphere, when the sun is at its highest position in the sky. At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice. The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's ...
Summer will start this year at 4:51 p.m. on June 20. The summer solstice occurs when the northern hemisphere is at its maximum tilt toward the sun. It is also when the sun reaches the farthest ...
[a] Twelve months are named and ordered the same as those of the Gregorian calendar, except that the extra month is inserted between June and July, and called Sol. Situated in mid-summer (from the point of view of its Northern Hemisphere authors) and including the mid-year solstice, the name of the new month was chosen in homage to the sun. [4]