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OVERVIEW OF FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
Summer is a season, defined by convention in meteorology as the whole months of June, July and August in the Northern hemisphere and the whole months of December, January and February in the Southern hemisphere. The first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere is either June 21st or June 1st (the former is the astronomical start, the latter the meteorological). Summer is commonly viewed as the season with the longest (and warmest) days of the year, in which the daylight predominates, through varying degrees. In the northern latitudes, twilight is known to last at least an hour, sometimes leading to the famous white nights found in St. Petersburg and Scandinavia.
HISTORY OF FIRST DAY OF SUMMER
It is called the season of the Midnight Sun in the north Pole as well as in Iceland.
Astronomically, the seasons start at the equinoxes and solstices. However, due to the phenomenon of seasonal lag, the meteorological season lags about a month behind the astronomical season. Today, the meteorological definition is most common, but in the past the astronomical definition was more frequent, and some people today still prefer it.
In most countries, kids are out of school during this time of year, although dates vary. Some begin in June, although in the UK, from the ages of 5-16, school ends in the middle of July.
In the American movie industry, summer is often nicknamed the "season of the blockbuster". It is the most profitable and highly competitive time of the year in which a large number of big-budget movies (usually action or sci-fi) are released. Because of this, the summer is often viewed by both critics and audiences as the season of some of the most successful movies as well as some of the most notorious flops. The "Summer Movie Season" spans from the first week of May until the last weekend of August, the latter known as the "Dumping weekend", the weekend in which film studios "dump" movies they believe have little chance of success into theatres.
FIRST DAY OF SUMMER TRIVIA
What are Dog Days?
The Dog Days are the period during which time the star Sirius, known as the Dog Star (and the brightest star of all as seen from Earth), both rises after, and sets before, the Sun and is hence lost in the latter's glare. This period of invisibility, for Northern Hemisphere observers, is caused by the fact that the position of Sirius in the celestial sphere is well to the south of the ecliptic. The ancient Egyptians observed that the annual flooding of the Nile Delta would typically occur shortly after the star returned to view immediately before sunrise, taken to be around mid-August in the current calendar.
The further north one goes, the longer Sirius remains invisible each year, and beyond a latitude of approximately 74°N the star never appears above the horizon at all, making the colloquial, modern use of the term "dog days" to refer to the hot days of summer less than universally accurate.
By contrast, "dog days" as defined herein do not occur at all in the Southern Hemisphere, for there even when the star is least favourably placed for viewing (around July 1), it will be briefly visible both in the east before dawn and again in the west after dusk — and throughout most of Antarctica Sirius is circumpolar; that is to say, constantly above the horizon.
The term itself was coined by the ancient Romans, who called these days caniculares dies after the constellation of Canis Major, within which Sirius (a Canis Majoris) is found. As the hottest and most humid days of summer generally coincided with the period where Sirius rose/set with the sun, they believed that heat from Sirius was increasing the heat of the sun.In 2005 the dog days fall between July 3 and August 11, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac.
Source: The English Wikipedia
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