Because of this position of the earth, Monday will also have the shortest day and longest night of the year in Northern hemisphere with no sunrise or sunset at the Arctic circle.
The Winter Solstice, that marks astronomically the end of autumn and the beginning of the Winter is on Monday, said the Department of Meteorology Monday. The phenomenon happen every year because of the 23.5° tilt of the earth's rotational axis when orbiting around the sun where the sun become perpendicular to the Tropic of Capricorn.
Because of this position of the earth, Monday will also have the shortest day and longest night of the year in Northern hemisphere with no sunrise or sunset at the Arctic circle.
Because of this position of the earth, Monday will also have the shortest day and longest night of the year in Northern hemisphere with no sunrise or sunset at the Arctic circle.