Summer Solstice, 2024

From the Washington Post:

Summer is arriving a bit earlier than usual this year, and not just because a major heat wave is baking the eastern United States and Canada this week. Thursday’s summer solstice — the longest day and shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere — is the earliest in 228 years, since 1796, when George Washington was president.
The 2024 summer solstice arrives June 20 at 4:51 p.m. Eastern time, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory. A day later, on June 21, the full moon will rise at 9:08 p.m. Eastern. The “strawberry moon” is the lowest full moon of the year, staying close to the horizon as the sun soars to its highest point in the sky.

For an interesting look back to the Basin Fire and the Summer Solstice of 2008 (on the usual date of 6/21), you need look no further than a long blog post I did in 2022 with photos from several different people, here

https://bigsurkate.blog/2022/06/21/summer-solstice-and-the-basin-fire/