22 June 2013
Full Disk View on the Summer Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
Posted by Dan Satterfield
The sun reached it’s farthest point north of the Equator today (at 5:04 GMT). While you have surely noticed the shortening shadows at midday, you can clearly see it on the GOES image taken at sunset Eastern USA time tonight. Notice the 24 hour daylight at the top of the World and the complete absence of sunlight over Antarctica.
From the Univ. of Dundee Download station. Click for a GREAT BIG image.
Here in Maryland, tomorrow will bring 3 seconds LESS sunlight than today!
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.