Terminus

[rejectomorph]

The exact moment when the sun is farthest south comes at 4:42 AM PST Tuesday morning. (If it goes farther, we're in trouble.) So, had the calendar not gotten screwed up, this would be New Year's Eve. Instead, it's just the tattered tail-end of autumn. But what the hell. I think I'll have a drink anyway. Then I have to put out the trash cans, because it's Monday. Happy Monday, everybody!

Comments

[carbonunit.livejournal.com]

Another exact way to define the event is, it's the moment when the plant of the earths orbit around the sun, and the axis of the earth, as seen from the locus of the orbit, appear to be at 90 degrees.

We suffer more because by chance this corresponds with the earths closest approach to the sun, the perihelion. Winter is slightly colder too. The larger amount of ocean in this hemisphere tends to mollify this effect.