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-as of [20 MARCH 2024]–
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(begins with the december solstice for ‘northern hemisphere’)
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(begins with the june solstice for ‘southern hemisphere’)
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(marking the shortest day + longest night of the year)
(the ‘winter solstice’ occurs exactly when the earth’s axial tilt is farthest away from the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′)
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(ends with march equinox for ‘northern hemisphere’)
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(ends with september equinox for ‘southern hemisphere’)
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(“winter” is the coldest season of the year in ‘polar’ and ‘temperate’ climates, between ‘autumn’ and ‘spring’)
(‘winter’ is caused by the axis of the ‘earth’ in that ‘hemisphere’ being oriented away from the ‘sun’)
(different cultures define different dates as the start of ‘winter’, and some use a definition based on ‘weather’)
(when it is ‘winter’ in the ‘northern hemisphere’, it is ‘summer’ in the ‘southern hemisphere’, and vice versa)
(in many regions, ‘winter’ is associated with ‘snow’ and ‘freezing temperatures’)
(the moment of ‘winter solstice’ is when the sun’s elevation with respect to the ‘north’ or ‘south’ Pole is at its most ‘negative value’ (that is, the ‘sun’ is at its farthest below the horizon as measured from the ‘pole’), meaning this day will have the ‘shortest day’ + the ‘longest night’)
(the earliest ‘sunset’ and latest ‘sunrise’ dates outside the ‘polar regions’ differ from the date of the ‘winter solstice’, however, and these depend on ‘latitude’, due to the variation in the solar day throughout the year caused by the earth’s ‘elliptical orbit’)
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(research “‘earliest’ and ‘latest’ (‘sunrise’ / ‘sunset'”)
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