Winter solstice 2022

2022 - 6 - 20

Solstice - shortest day of the year

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Sydney's shortest day is here, but it's coldest is yet to come (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Sydneysiders will experience the shortest day of the year on Tuesday, with about nine hours and 53 minutes of daylight marking the winter solstice.

Helsinki will have about 18 hours and 55 minutes of daylight while towns in Norway’s far north will experience 24 hours of daylight. In Sydney, the winter solstice will mean about four and a half fewer daylight hours than on the city’s longest day, which will occur on December 22 and have about 14 hours and 24 minutes of daylight. Sydneysiders will experience the shortest day of the year on Tuesday, with about nine hours and 53 minutes of daylight marking the winter solstice.

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It's amazing," said Lisa Wilkinson, an electrician who was stationed in Antarctica in 2020. The lanterns are then burned in a massive bonfire, which is meant to symbolise the wishes, hopes and fears that will be passed into the flames. Burning of the Clocks is a winter solstice festival in Brighton, England. If there's one way to welcome in the darkness on the longest night of the year, it's with lanterns. "As far as astronomers are concerned, the winter solstice is a great time because we have the most night time and astronomers love night time," Professor Bedding said. Today is Australia's shortest day of 2022 — or the longest night of the year, depending on how you want to look at it.

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You can then pop a candle into your jar to let it glow and keep away the dark. Yule logs are traditionally done with the root of a hardwood tree (any type of eucalyptus will do the trick here in Australia), in a ritual performed to help re-ignite the sun. Introduced by the Pagans in their winter solstice celebrations, many Yule Tide rituals are now being carried across the globe for everyone to enjoy.

Teeth-chattering temperatures to start the winter solstice (New Zealand Herald)

A timely, cold start across Aotearoa New Zealand as we welcome the winter solstice. In fact, the -7.1° in Ranfurly is the coldest temp so far this year at a non ...

But some isolated morning showers are forecast about the Manawatū Gorge and southern Kāpiti Coast. The coldest place just before 7am was in Twizel, where -4.9C was recorded. Fine conditions are expected throughout the day. A few showers are forecast in the Chatham Islands. In Wellington and Wairarapa, conditions will be mostly cloudy with a few light showers in the mix. Showers are expected in Gisborne and Hawke's Bay. But they will gradually ease throughout the day.

What is the winter solstice? Everything to know about the shortest ... (9News)

It usually falls on June 20 or 21 in the southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.

It depends on where you live. Today is the shortest day of the year, but it isn't necessarily the coldest. How long is the shortest day of the year? The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year. The winter solstice is the moment the southern hemisphere is tilted furthest from the sun. In the northern hemisphere, today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.

Winter Solstice in southern hemisphere takes place on June 21. So ... (The Canberra Times)

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Former features and weekender writer for The Daily Advertiser. Small, quiet, and a student of the Julie Bishop School Of Staring. Usually dressed in something colourful, always snacking on something homemade. Friend to most mothers and all dogs. Former features and weekender writer for The Daily Advertiser. Small, quiet, and a student of the Julie Bishop School Of Staring. Usually dressed in something colourful, always snacking on something homemade. Friend to most mothers and all dogs. National videographer, filmmaker, and editor. It's from this tradition that the burning of the Yule log at Christmas comes. Ancient China celebrated the Dongzhi Festival between December 21 and 23. On the summer solstice, the sun reaches its highest point. Pagan druids welcomed Alban Arthan or the 'light of winter' festival. National videographer, filmmaker, and editor. It's the opposite in the northern hemisphere. Each date heralds the official start of a new season.

Winter solstice: Australia celebrates shortest day of the year with icy ... (The Guardian)

Antarctic researchers got in first with a dip in a sub-zero pool, but there are other feats of endurance, and creativity, to mark the shortest day of the ...

“It’s madness, it’s ridiculous, but it’s what we do here in Antarctica,” Jeffcoat said. Station leader Rebecca Jeffcoat said celebrating the solstice was a “tradition in the Antarctic calendar” and the swim a “rite of passage” but “once is definitely enough”. “It was minus 19 on the ice with a wind speed of six knots, so altogether it was probably about minus 25 with the wind chill factor.” Those at Mawson station will take their own dip into a sub-zero swimming pool carved out of the ice at Horseshoe Harbour. The winter solstice marks the middle of winter when the shortest day and longest night occurs. Researchers in the Antarctic have taken a dip into a sub-zero pool to mark the winter solstice as Australians prepare to celebrate the shortest day of the year on Tuesday.