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If you want to experience the very first moment of summer 2022, you are going to have to get up very early in the morning.
The 2022 summer solstice, signaling the first day of summer, the day when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky and the longest day of the year, occurs at 3:14 a.m. MDT Tuesday, June 21.
That will be the exact moment in the northern hemisphere “when the axial tilt of the Earth is at its most inclined toward the sun during its 365-day orbit — at an angle of 23° 26',” according to www.space.com.
“The word solstice comes from the Latin solstitium, from sol (sun) and stitium (to stop), reflecting the fact that the sun appears to stop at this time (and again at the winter solstice),” according to www.almanac.com.
The summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, the northern-most circle of latitude on Earth.
The 2022 autumnal equinox will be at 7:03 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 22. That means summer will be 94 days.
