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Winter Solstice on December 21st: the longest night of the year. The shortest day of the year, the longest night occurs today, Sunday, December 21st. The so-called Winter solstice is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in the North Hemisphere when the Earth North axis is at the longest distance to the sun.
However, if you prefer the traditional, astronomy-based definition, then winter officially begins with the solstice, at 5:44 a.m. Eastern time on Dec. 21. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. Pattern of daylight and darkness at time (5:44 a.m.) of the 2016 winter solstice. This map projection of the Earth shows how dark the Northern Hemisphere is at the time of the winter solstice, 5:44 a.m.