Monthly Archives: December 2021
Here Comes the Sun: This Year’s December Solstice
The winter (for the northern hemisphere) solstice arrives at 9:59 am CST on December 21. That’s 10:59 EST, 8:59 MST, etc. As long as people in the northern hemisphere have been observing the annual cycle of the Sun’s apparent motion on the sky, they have noticed a slowing in its descent towards the southern horizon…