Let's welcome Winter 2024 with its chilly temperatures, a season that brings the shortest day and the longest night of the ...

Throughout the Northern Hemisphere, the day of the solstice has the fewest hours of possible sunlight and the night has the most ... days are now longest and nights shortest.) ...

The winter solstice occurs when the path of the sun is the furthest south in the Northern Hemisphere, creating the shortest day and longest night of the year in the northern half of the globe.