Happy solstice!

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[djf]

Right now, about 4 hours until winter solstice!

The days get longer from here on out - even if they initially get colder!

Happy winter solstice 2014!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This one appears to be excellent:

http://earthsky.org/tonight/earliest-sunset-today-but-not-shortest-day

[Star Traveler]

I don’t celebrate no stinkin’ solstice!

[zipper]

Do you have any extra?

Glad you asked....

[EEGator]

[SamAdams76]

You don't celebrate the solstice. You observe it. As you would any other astronomical event.

Winter solstice occurs at precisely 6:03pm tonight ET.

After which, the sun will begin its slow northward trek back north, casting additional sunlight and longer days upon those 90% of us that happen to live north of the Equator.

True fact. Only 10% of the human population lives south of the Equator. For them, it is now mid-summer.

We get our turn six long months from now.

[SunkenCiv]

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[ErnBatavia]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV04rj5QCzU

[caww]

Uh?.....

It’s Christmas....and THAT is the season celebrted throughout the entire world.....

[FroggyTheGremlim]

More than 5 days.

Actually the earliest sunset is usually Dec 7, two weeks before the solstice.

[djf]

It varies by latitude. Probably also varies by height and where exactly you are in the time zone.

For example here in Seattle, the earliest sunset is at 4:18 But the sun sets at 4:18, according to Seattle Science Center, over the span of eleven days starting on December 6th and ending on December 16th.

A reasonable understanding of this is that the earliest sunset is in the middle of this whole range... or December 11th.

http://www.pacificsciencecenter.org/sunrise.html

[Tijeras_Slim]

When does Kwanzaa start?

December 26th... so hurry, there's only 4 looting days left!

[discostu]

[Star Traveler]

That’s in reply to those who do celebrate it.

AND ... I do “note” that an astronomical event occurs (I don’t “observe” it either, because of the usage of the word) ... just like I note another kind of natural event like a tornado ripped through a town or like a hurricane tore up a city, or an earthquake devastated some geographical area ... :-) ...

[Salamander]

40 days until Imbolc.

http://days.to/sunday/2015/2/1

:)

[shibumi]

Happy 40 days to the half-way to the half-’n-half!

[Salamander]

Tragically, that actually makes sense to me.

;D