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)
• The season officially begins Wednesday, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The summer solstice of 2012 will occur at 7:09 p.m. EDT, the instant when the sun climbs to its farthest point north of the equator.
(Huffington Post)
• STONEHENGE, England -- Rain-sodden crowds welcomed a spectacularly wet summer solstice at Stonehenge in true British fashion Thursday: With stoicism and wit.
(Huffington Post)
• 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)
• 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)
• As summer 2012 begins, ice is melting faster now than at this same time in 2007. June 20, 2012 at 23:09 UTC (7:09 p.m. EDT) is the northern summer solstice, which many consider the start of summer in this hemisphere.
(Earth & Sky)
• Every Summer Solstice  (also known as Litha) our family drives down to the ocean – the place where I find the perfect balance of the elements: sun, sand, gentle ocean breeze and water.
(patheos.com)
• The Summer Solstice Celebration is free for members of all participating After these cool first weeks of June, it may have seemed there would not be a summer here in 2012, but the calendar and the temperatures finally say it has arrived.
(Main Line Media News)