Summer is coming a little later for the East Coast than the West this year; arriving just after 1 a.m. Eastern Standard time on Friday, June 21. On the West Coast, though, they’ll be squeezing into teeny tiny bikini’s earlier –10:04 p.m. Thursday, to be precise.
It’s not unusual for the solstice to span two days, according to Weather Underground – over the past 52 solstices and equinoxes it’s happened 11 times in the continental United States.
During the solstice, we get the most sunlight of any day of the year. Kind of. We’ll see about 14 hours and 56 minutes of sunlight Friday. But we also had that amount of sunlight on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory. And we’ll see the same amount of sun on Saturday, too.
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So enjoy the sun. There’s plenty of it in the forecast tomorrow, according to the National Weather Service, and temperatures should be in the low 80s.
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