20 June 2020
Today the summer solstice arrives in Pittsburgh at 5:43pm EDT giving us this year’s longest daylight of 15 hours 3 minutes and 54 seconds(*).
If you were tracking the sun’s location at sunrise you would see why “solstice” means “sun stands still” for it rises at nearly the same place for a day or two before it heads south again.
Stonehenge near Salisbury, England is the perfect place to watch this happen as the sun rises over the Heel Stone on the summer solstice.
Normally huge crowds gather at Stonehenge to watch this phenomenon but English Heritage has canceled the 2020 celebrations and is urging people to stay away because of COVID-19.
Fortunately we can all watch sunrise at Stonehenge via live stream on the English Heritage Facebook page. Tune in on Sunday June 21 at 4:52 am British Summer Time, which is Saturday 11:52 pm Eastern Daylight Time.
Night owls in Pittsburgh don’t have to get up early to watch sunrise on the longest day.
(*) Pittsburgh’s 20 June sunrise was at 5:49am, sunset at 8:53pm.
(photos from Wikimedia Commons; click on the captions to see the originals)
Our
sunrisesunset is at 8:53pm, not 9:53pm. I saw that and thought, no, please not be light until 10pm!Ooops yes a typo. Thanks. I fixed it.
Could there be a typo in your sunset time? I thought it was 8:53 p.m., although dusk goes on longer.
Yes there was a typo! Thanks for pointing it out. I’ve corrected it.
Thanks for fixing MY typo! lol.