Today marks the winter solstice, or the beginning of winter, for the Northern Hemisphere.
The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, when the sun is at its southernmost point in the sky.
However, contrary to popular belief, it is not the day of the year with the earliest sunset or the latest sunrise. This varies by region, but in Seattle, our earliest sunset happened about 10 days ago.
Prepare for dangerously low temps, ice storm across Puget Sound
“Sunsets are getting a little later — they were the earliest a week-and-a-half, two weeks ago,” said state climatologist Nick Bond, a research scientist at the University of
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