Celebrating Summer Solstice 2012 ~ The New York Way
A very Happy Summer Solstice to everyone! It’s my favorite day of the year with the added bonus that summer arrives one day earlier this year – 20 june instead of the 21st, at 7:08pm here. Solar noon is at 12:58pm and today’s sunset is 8:31pm.
Summer 2012 has come in with a bang with soaring temps of 96° F / 36° C predicted (making us hotter than Cairo or Rome!).
This year’s day-length comes in at:
From yoga en masse to Manhattanhenge (that’s the one I’m waiting for: one of two days when the sunset is exactly aligned with the grid of streets in Manhattan), this list of events helps us launch summer 2012.