{"id":26843,"date":"2023-12-20T21:57:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=26843"},"modified":"2023-12-20T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T02:57:07","slug":"the-2023-december-solstice-falls-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2023\/12\/the-2023-december-solstice-falls-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2023 December solstice falls this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The December solstice marks the sun\u2019s southernmost point in the sky, for the entire globe, for this entire year. On this solstice, the sun will be overhead at noon as viewed from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tropic_of_Capricorn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tropic of Capricorn<\/a>.\u00a0In 2023, the December solstice falls at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/universal-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3:27 UTC<\/a>\u00a0on December 22 (9:27 p.m. CST on December 21). For us in the Northern Hemisphere, it is the shortest day of the year before they slowly start to lengthen again. You can read more about it at <em>EarthSky<\/em> at <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-december-solstice\/\">https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/everything-you-need-to-know-december-solstice\/<\/a>. The December solstice marks the beginning of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere, although climatological winter began on December 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped.png 600w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/12\/Earth-lighting-winter-solstice_HU_cropped-138x138.png 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The December solstice marks the sun\u2019s southernmost point in the sky, for the entire globe, for this entire year. On this solstice, the sun will be overhead at noon as viewed from the\u00a0Tropic of Capricorn.\u00a0In 2023, the December solstice falls at\u00a03:27 UTC\u00a0on December 22 (9:27 p.m. CST on December 21). For us in the Northern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26844,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26843\/revisions\/26844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}