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Today is the winter solstice in Australia, which marks the shortest day and longest night of the year.
The winter solstice refers to the time when the Earth’s southern or northern hemisphere reaches its greatest deviation from the sun.
This happens once a year in each hemisphere, with the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere in late December and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere in late June.
Started at 6.51am AEST today for the Southern Hemisphere.
Here’s what you need to know about the event:
When will the sun rise and set this winter solstice?
Sydney: Sunrise 7 am, sunset 4.53 pm
Melbourne: Sunrise 7.35am, sunset 5.08pm
Adelaide: Sunrise at 7:23 a.m., sunset at 5:11 p.m
Hobart: Sunrise at 7:42 a.m., sunset at 4:42 p.m.
Brisbane: Sunrise 6.37am, sunset 5.01pm
Perth: Sunrise at 7:16 a.m., sunset at 5:20 p.m
Darwin: Sunrise 7.06 am, sunset 6.30 pm
From the chart above, you can see the length of the winter solstice day will vary with latitude.
If you live in Sydney, there will be about nine hours and 54 minutes between sunrise and sunset today, while Darwin will enjoy 11 hours and 24 minutes. But consider Hobart, which only gets nine hours.
How is the winter solstice celebrated?
This week, cities across Australia are hosting community events, including bonfires and lantern parades.
As long as the people who visit them will be healthy, consider a brave group of Australians in Antarctica, based at the Davis Research Station.
They will continue the tradition of swimming in water no warmer than -2 degrees to mark the winter solstice. Hardy swimmers will enter the water through a hole cut with a chainsaw from the thick ice.
What will happen after today?
After the winter solstice, the days will start to get longer and the nights will get shorter in Australia.
This trend will continue for the next six months until we reach the Southern Hemisphere Summer Solstice at the end of December, marking the longest day and shortest night of the year in Australia.
– Reported with Weatherzone
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