It's Official It's ... Summer!
Sunday June 21. 2026 and today marks the summer solstice and today will mark the closest our earth is tilted toward our sun and numerous fun summery things can commence and ... yippee. Recent societal memes would have people believe that summer begins with Memorial Day. Not so my friends. Summer begins with the summer solstice and after today it's all downhill towards winter solstice and Xmas. You see meteorologically our year is broken up into four distinct meteorologic seasons. Spring starts with the vernal equinox then comes the summer solstice then the autumnal equinox and finally the winter solstice and viola ... year is done. Societally we don't recognize any of that but we should. The summer solstice is when our sun is tilted closest to our sun and the winter solstice marks the exact opposite of that summer tilt. The equinox spring and autumn, happen when earth is exactly half way to either solstice. I'm almost certain that all this makes sense ... maybe. The longe...