Six days from now, on December 21, at 9:11 a.m. the Pacific time zone will experience the Winter Solstice, the official end of autumn. This information is courtesy of the Archaeoastronomy.com website.
The winter solstice is the longest night and shortest day of the year, the day when the sun's daily maximum elevation in the sky is lowest. In the northern hemisphere, winter technically begins on this day, and lasts until the vernal equinox on March 20.
Early peoples celebrated the sun's seeming "decision" to stop retreating and to advance once more into the sky. COTTonLINE invites you to join us in welcoming the beginning of Sol's northward journey, which terminates on June 21 with the onset of summer.
