BOISE, Idaho — Welcome to the first day of Summer!
Today the sun will be at its highest angle creating the longest daylight of the year for the northern hemisphere. On the Summer Solstice the sun reaches its northernmost position, reaching the Tropic of Cancer and standing still before reversing direction and moving south again.
According to Almanac.com, while Wednesday is the "longest day" it is not the latest sunset, nor the earliest sunrise. The earliest sunrises happen before the summer solstice and latest sunset sometime after the solstice.
A few fun facts about the June Solstice. Solstice comes from the Latin word solstitium - from sol (sun) and stitium (still or stopped.) The solstice on other planets: Mercury has almost no planet tilt which means it does not experience true seasons, and Uranus is tilted by almost 98 degrees which means its can have seasons that last 21 years.
Welcome to Summer!
