21 December 2024
Pleased Winter Solstice! The times shall be getting longer quickly.
Most of us have been asleep when the winter solstice occurred in Pittsburgh at 4:21 AM EST. We couldn’t see it, even when we’d been awake, as a result of in the present day’s dawn is at 7:39am EST. On this the shortest day we’ll have 9 hours, 16 minutes and 59 seconds of daylight.
In Britain, Stonehenge is aligned to mark the summer time solstice at dawn and the winter solstice at sundown. Nonetheless, Stonehenge holds their winter solstice celebration at dawn yearly. Right here’s a video of final 12 months’s celebrations.
Winter Solstice at Stonehenge in 2023
BBC Information describes this 12 months’s occasion: Winter solstice celebrated at Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a good larger feat of prehistoric engineering than we’d initially thought. In 2021 scientists discovered that its igneous bluestones have been imported from southwest Wales. This 12 months a Welsh scientist found that its large, partially buried, 6 ton altar stone got here from Scotland! A very cosmopolitan monument.
No marvel individuals rejoice there.
