Do you yearn for long days and short nights? Then this could be the best day of the year for you and fellow sunlight seekers.
“As Earth orbits the sun [once each year], its tilted axis always points in the same direction. So, throughout the year, different parts of Earth get the sun’s direct rays,” explains NASA. When the sun reaches its apex in the Northern Hemisphere, that’s the summer solstice.Generally, it’s not. “On average, the vast majority of the United States experiences its warmest temperatures in July or early August,” says CNN Senior Weather Producer Taylor Ward.
“Temperatures essentially continue to rise after the summer solstice because the amount of energy coming in from the sun continues to be greater than the amount of energy lost at night – so it is basically an accumulation of warmth until the daylight gets short enough that this changes,” says Ward.
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