Later today at 8:42 p.m. Mountain Time, the Summer Solstice will occur in the Northern Hemisphere. Today will be our longest day (and shortest night) of the year.
Perhaps most important it will be the official first day of our Northern Hemisphere summer. We have yet to run our AC here in the mountains. 500+ miles south, and nearly a mile closer to sea level, our winter quarters have already had several days with highs over 100℉, today is predicted to reach 108℉.
One of my most memorable summer solstices happened sometime in the early 1980s. We did a late spring RV trip up the Alaskan Highway in our little motorhome and kept going north to Fairbanks, AK. On this date that year we were parked at a Fairbanks RV camp and at 1 a.m I went outside and there was enough natural light to read a newspaper. The mosquitoes were fierce so I didn’t tarry. That trip was some adventure.