The weather is still autumn, but shortly after midnight astronomical winter begins. Today will last just seven hours and 42 minutes. The following days will gradually become longer.
Today, we also have the longest night of the entire history of the Earth. The rotary motion of the earth decreases with time. Scientists estimate that the length of the day is reduced by about 15 to 25 millionths of a second. The main reason for slowing down the rotation of the Earth and the moon.
Three minutes after midnight will be the moment of the winter solstice. Monday, December 22, will be the first calendar day of winter.
December 21 the day will last only 7 hours and 42 minutes and will be shorter than the longest of 9 hours and 4 minutes.
Starting New Year will be faster were coming on, as the old Polish proverb says
On New Year’s day arrives ram stroke.
In the northern hemisphere it is the shortest day of the year and the longest in the southern hemisphere. Astronomical winter does not always coincide with the climate.
In our latitude winter weather usually precedes the calendar. often already at the end of November there is frost and snow. This year, however, is different, because the winter weather has not yet appeared.
For the winter months the climate is assumed, in which the average daily air temperature falls below 0 degrees Celsius. Winter climate in Poland lasts from 60 to 130 days. Podhale is the coldest in the Giant Mountains and the Masurian Lake District, the warmest in Gdansk and Szczecin. Winter will last until the astronomical vernal equinox, is March 20, 2014, when at 17.57 astronomical spring change it.
ann / polskieradio.pl / vox.com
by wSumie.pl
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