Get out your flip-flops, snip open a freezie and maybe jump through the sprinkler.
Today's the first day of summer, otherwise known as the summer solstice. It arrived at exactly 6:07 a.m. June 21 this year.
The summer solstice, also known as midsummer, occurs when a planet's rotational axis, or geographical pole on either its Northern or its Southern Hemisphere, is most greatly inclined toward the star that it orbits.
The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's summer.
This is the June solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the December solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.
Depending on the shift of the calendar, the summer solstice occurs some time between June 20 and June 22 in the Northern Hemisphere and between December 20 and December 23 each year in the Southern Hemisphere.
