Association of the Moroccan Initiative for Science and Thought: Summer will start Thursday, June 21st

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The 2018 summer solstice occurs on Thursday, June 21 at 10:07 GMT in Morocco, the Arab region, and the entire northern hemisphere.

Thursday will be the first day of the summer season, and in it the sun reaches its maximum position towards the north in the dome of the sky, and it is directly above the Tropic of Cancer, and the daylight hours are longer than the night hours, and the sun rises from the far northeast and sets in the far northwest, and the reason for that is that the earth revolves around The sun is tilted around its axis of rotation around itself by 23 and a half degrees, and it is now located in a place in space, as the North Pole of the Earth is tilted towards the sun, so we live the longest period of daylight hours north of the equator, where the length of the day is more than 12 hours on the summer solstice, while The opposite occurs in the southern hemisphere, south of the equator, where days are shorter than 12 hours.

It is noteworthy that about 5,000 years ago, ancient civilizations knew that the apparent path of the sun across the sky “the length of daylight” and the location of sunrise and sunset change in a regular way during the year, and they built sites such as rock circles such as those in England, which were paved with the sunrise of the summer solstice.

It is worth noting that the summer season will last 93 days, 15 hours and 47 minutes until the autumnal equinox on September 23.