Summer Season-Google celebrates with beautiful doodle

It is summer season. Google celebrates the start of summer with a mesmerizing doodle. The biggest search engine dedicates its doodle to mark the start of summer and the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Referred to as the summer season solstice, the day receives the maximum hours of daylight.

For the people living in the Southern Hemisphere, Google dedicates another beautiful doodle to mark the winter solstice. This marks the shortest day of the year. Length of day increases from the equator towards the North Pole in the Northern Hemisphere in June (around the summer solstice there), but decreases towards the South Pole in the Southern Hemisphere at the time of the southern winter solstice. The day, June 21 coincides with the World Music Day and International Day of Yoga.

Since the summer solstice takes place during summer in the month of June in the Northern Hemisphere, this is also called June solstice. On the other hand, due to the timing of winter solstice in December, it is also called December solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. The date for winter solstice usually falls between December 20 and 23 every year.

Image Credit: Google doodle

The day of June 21 is the longest in the year 2019 and the people living in the north of equator will enjoy the maximum amount of sunlight. The warmest season of the year begins today and will last till around September 22 or 23. Today, the Earth is tilted at maximum (23.44°) towards the Sun at the maximum point, which makes the planet receive maximum amount of sunlight, consequently making the longest day of the year. The Sun also reaches its highest point in the sky and gets positioned directly above the Tropic of Cancer.

Key dates for 2019 for countries falling in Northern Hemisphere:

Spring Equinox: March 20

Summer Solstice: June 21

Autumn Equinox: September 23

Winter Solstice: December 22

Since June 21 is the longest day of the year due to the summer solstice.

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