LONGEST DAY ON FRIDAY
SUMMER SEASON BEGINS SUN IN MOST SOUTHERN PORTION OF ORBIT The summer solstice will occur on Friday’, when the sun will reach the most southern portion of its orbit. Although the day nvght well be called midsummer’s day, the solstice is actually used to mark the first day pf the calendar season of summer, instead of the middle of the season.
This arbitrary arrangement brings the astronomical season more into lint with the meteorological season, which begins generally about the second week of December, but which cannot be accurately determined until the temperature gradients have been examined well after the season has expired. On Friday and Saturday next, as the solstice actually occurs at midnight on Friday, the sun will be only 13J degrees from the vertical at noon.
Although the sun is now so high in our skies, making Friday the longest day of the year, and countries in this hemisphere are receiving the greatest amount of heat from it, some weeks must elapse before the soil attains its maximum temperature. The hottest days will actually occur when the soil has absorbed all the warmth it is capable of absorbing, some time toward the end of January.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 21 December 1938, Page 8
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