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Summer or summertime is the hottest and brightest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.At or centred on the summer solstice, daylight hours are the longest and darkness hours are the shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.
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. What are the dates for the four seasons in 2024?
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.
For many, Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, but the season does not technically begin for another month after the holiday.
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 ...
Ecologists often use a six-season model for temperate climate regions which are not tied to any fixed calendar dates: prevernal, vernal, estival, serotinal, autumnal, and hibernal. Many tropical regions have two seasons: the rainy/wet/monsoon season and the dry season. Some have a third cool, mild, or harmattan season.
The North American Monsoon (NAM) occurs from late June or early July into September, originating over Mexico and spreading into the southwest United States by mid-July. This allows the wet season to start in the Southwest during the summer rather than early fall as seen across the remainder of the West. [10]
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.