Rubie Margery

Shortest Day Of The Year 2024 Seattle. Monday is the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year in earth’s northern hemisphere. Eight hours, 25 minutes, 25 seconds — that’s how much daylight mother nature will grace us with on thursday (how generous of her).

After the summer solstice (june 20, 2024), we start to lose daylight. The word solstice comes from the latin word solstitium, meaning sol (sun) and stitium (to stop).the solstice occurs twice a year, when it reaches the northernmost point (summer in the norther.