The longest night of the year ( winter solstice) is over!
Northern Hemispherians (Hemispherites? Hemisphericals?) can rejoice–our days now start getting longer, the sunshine gets warmer. The lovely gray midday twilight of snowy Kiruna now starts to stretch out and get brighter. Not too long from now, a real sunrise will happen.
Southern Hemispherosians, you just saw midsummer pass by. But your equivalent months for July and August are just ahead–I can’t feel too sorry for Southern Hemispheratics!