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From an astronomical view, the equinoxes and solstices would be the middle of the respective seasons, [2] [3] but sometimes astronomical summer is defined as starting at the solstice, the time of maximal insolation, often identified with 21 June or 21 December. By solar reckoning, summer instead starts on May Day and the summer solstice is ...
The summer solstice or estival solstice [i] occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun. It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere ( Northern and Southern ). 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 ...
Xiàzhì or Geshi (Chinese and Japanese: 夏至; Korean: 하지(Haji); Vietnamese: Hạ chí; lit. summer's extreme) is the 10th solar term, and marks the summer solstice. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 90° (around 21 June) and ends when the Sun reaches the longitude of 105° (around 7 July).
If you want to get precise, the Northern Hemisphere's summer solstice will commence the first day of summer 2019 at exactly 11:54 AM EDT. However, there are technically two summer solstices in a year.
On the Celtic calendar, the start of the seasons corresponds to four Pagan agricultural festivals - the traditional first day of winter is 1 November (Samhain, the Celtic origin of Halloween); spring starts 1 February (Celtic Imbolc); summer begins 1 May (Beltane, the Celtic origin of May Day); the first day of autumn is 1 August (Celtic ...
Those changes extend to the league's schedule footprint, which includes a range of preseason start dates, a CBA-mandated week off in June, and a month-long summer break in July due to prominent ...
June—abbreviated Jun [a] —is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars—the latter the most widely used calendar in the world. Its length is 30 days. June succeeds May and precedes July. This month marks the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and contains the summer solstice, which is the day with the most ...
Maddi and Emmy butted heads during season 2 after Emmy was promoted to assistant general manager over the DJ. Emmy was later demoted, which seemingly helped ease the tension between the women.