Summer solstice 2012

• Summer officially kicks off today, with the summer solstice marking the longest day of the year on June 20, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
(National Geographic)
• AVON LAKE, Ohio -- A lone car sat in the parking lot of Sweetbriar Golf Club on Wednesday and that was not unexpected, given the circumstances.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• Since day length depends on latitude, northern cities like New York and Chicago see the sun above the horizon for more than 15 hours. At lower latitudes the amount of daylight is shorter but the sun climbs higher in the sky.
(how does daylight compare around the world? - Washington Post)
• AVON LAKE, Ohio - I had a lot of memories from the Summer Solstice Golf Challenge, and definitely more than we could list in keeping these short. Ill list a few from each person, and a few overall.
(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
• STONEHENGE, England -- Rain-sodden crowds welcomed a spectacularly wet summer solstice at Stonehenge in true British fashion Thursday: With stoicism and wit.
(Huffington Post)
• Story Created: Jun 23, 2012 at 7:01 PM PDT Story Updated: Jun 23, 2012 at 7:05 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Virginia Beach welcomed the return of summer on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. The summer solstice is observed annually on the longest day of the year. The holiday often falls on June 21, but it arrived a day earlier this year because 2012 is a leap year.
(Examiner)