Monday, June 25, 2012

Summer solstice 2012

  • Summer solstice -- whered it go? Perhaps you were among the many who missed this years summer solstice. It traditionally takes place June 21, which is today. But this year -- sneaky, sneaky -- the summer solstice arrived June 20.
  • (Los Angeles Times)
  • The Summer Solstice of 2012 has passed and days are now officially getting shorter. However, during the Salem Summer Solstice 5k/10k this past Saturday, the extra sunlight really only made people able to see the non-stop raindrops more clearly.
  • (Oregonian)
  • STONEHENGE, England — Rain-sodden crowds welcomed a spectacularly wet summer solstice at Stonehenge in true British fashion Thursday: With stoicism and wit.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • ROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP/Getty Images 21 June 2012: For at least the 4,000th time, observers watch the summer solstice from the megalithic observatory at Kokino, 100 km northeast of Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia.
  • (Aljazeera.com)
  • The 2012 Summer Solstice 5k run walk was held on Thursday, June 21 st at the Clackamas Community College Campus in Oregon City. The nearly flat hill was a very fun user-friendly race and was open to a mix of runner and walkers.
  • (Oregonian)
  • WASHINGTON — When the summer solstice arrives Wednesday, it will mark six months until the winter solstice on Dec. 21, when, according to some people's reading of the Mayan Long Count calendar, the world will be destroyed.
  • (Bangor Daily News)
  • Believe it or not, the summer solstice isn't sorcery at all. It's an astronomical event that occurs when the axial tilt of earth's semi-axis is most inclined toward our sun, resulting in the 'longest' day of the year.
  • (Twirlit)
  • Summer Solstice is conventionally set on June 21 st. Astronomically speaking June 20 th seems to be the actual date this year.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • Story Created: Jun 23, 2012 at 7:01 PM PDT Story Updated: Jun 23, 2012 at 7:42 PM PDT Summer is officially here and Santa Barbara is ushering in the season with a huge celebration, The Summer Solstice Parade and Festival.
  • (KEYT)

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