However for much of the Arctic Circle in the Northern Hemisphere's winter months, the Sun is below the horizon even at midday.

The ATLAS-03 mission made the first detailed measurements from the Shuttle of the Northern Hemisphere's middle atmosphere in late fall.

That they lived in the North Pacific, the other side of the world from the penguins, has led to them being described at times as the Northern Hemisphere's penguins, although one new theory suggests that this group is a link between the penguins and the Pelecaniformes.

The 10, 000 years of the Holocene epoch covers most of this period, since the end of the Northern Hemisphere's Younger Dryas millennium-long cooling.

In particular, time intervals measured on the surface of the Earth ( terrestrial time, TT ) are not constant when compared to the motions of the planets: the terrestrial second ( TT ) appears to be longer in Northern Hemisphere winter and shorter in Northern Hemisphere summer when compared to the " planetary second " ( conventionally measured in barycentric dynamical time, TDB ).

The Northern Hemisphere is considered to be halfway through its summer and the Southern Hemisphere halfway through its winter on this day.

The Cardinals conduct their annual summer training camp at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September ( Northern Hemisphere ) or March ( Southern Hemisphere ) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.

With his army in high spirits, Lee intended to shift the focus of the summer campaign from war-ravaged northern Virginia and hoped to influence Northern politicians to give up their prosecution of the war by penetrating as far as Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, or even Philadelphia.

One of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross ( in contrast to the Southern Cross ).

* Solstice ( called the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere ) occurs on dates varying from December 20 to December 22 ( in UTC ).

One of the largest and oldest summer leagues in the United States is found in the Northern Virginia area where teams from 47 pools compete against each other every summer.

It is, on average, the coldest month of the year within most of the Northern Hemisphere ( where it is the second month of winter ) and the warmest month of the year within most of the Southern Hemisphere ( where it is the second month of summer ).

In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 June.

It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere ( where it is the second month of summer ) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere ( where it is the second month of winter ).

* St John's Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations ( although this is not the astronomical summer solstice, see June 20 ) ( Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe ), and its related observances:

* St John's Eve and the first day of the Midsummer celebrations ( although this is not the real summer solstice, see June 20 ) ( Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe ):

Northern Labrador is classified as a polar tundra climate, southern Labrador has a subarctic climate while most of Newfoundland would be humid continental climate, Dfb: Cool summer subtype.

In contrast to Orion, it is in the period November – January ( summer in the Southern Hemisphere, winter in the Northern Hemisphere ) when Ophiuchus is in the daytime sky and thus not visible at most latitudes.

Benaud intends to continue spending the Northern Hemisphere summer in Britain writing, and will continue working for the Nine Network.

However, these can be ambiguous since seasons of the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere are opposites, and the summer solstice of one hemisphere is the winter solstice of the other.

The cumulative cooling and warming that result from the tilt of the planet become most pronounced after the solstices, leading to the more recent custom of using them to mark the beginning of summer and winter in most countries of Central and Northern Europe, as well as in Canada, the USA and New Zealand.

In recent years, the shrinking Arctic sea ice has also made the Northern Sea Route viable for commercial cargo ships plying between Europe and East Asia during a six-to-eight week window in the summer months, shaving off thousands of miles from the voyage compared to the Suez Canal.

The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate, culture, and tradition, but when it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.

In North America, summer is often the period from the summer solstice ( usually June 20 or 21 in the Northern Hemisphere ) to the autumn equinox.

Provisional IRA activity also increased across Northern Ireland with thirty British soldiers being killed in the remaining months of 1971, in contrast to the ten soldiers killed during the pre-internment period of the year.

During the period January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996, spending a total time of three months or more in the Channel Islands, England, the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales precludes individuals from donating.

The 2012 Tuareg rebellion has left Northern Mali without official money transfer service for months.

* 1981 – The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.

During the winter months in mountainous Northern Thailand, the temperature is cool enough for the cultivation of fruits such as lychees and strawberries.

This corresponds to the months of December, January and February in the Northern Hemisphere, and June, July and August in the Southern Hemisphere.

** Reverend Ian Paisley, hardline Protestant leader in Northern Ireland, is jailed for 3 months for illegal assembly.

During the summer and fall months, entire families traveled together in their trucks and buses, parked at Renaissance Pleasure Faire sites in Southern and Northern California, worked their crafts during the week, and donned Elizabethan costume for weekend performances, and to attend booths where handmade goods were sold to the public.

In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East.

During the winter months of the Northern or Southern hemispheres, the AM broadcast band tends to be more favorable because of longer hours of darkness.

Yulefest is a long-running tourism initiative that promotes Northern Hemisphere-style Christmas celebrations during the Australian winter months June to August.

The war itself finally ended with the surrender of the last Confederate army — Cherokee General Stand Watie's forces, who surrendered at Fort Towson in June 1865, over two months after General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia -- and with it any chance of Confederate success.

Northern Michigan specializes in growing white grapes and is known for its rieslings which grow well in the summer months and late fall which Traverse City is known for.

Northern Ireland's only breeding pair of choughs can be seen during the summer months.

Due to this, Michigan City receives a fair amount of tourism during the summer months, especially by residents of Chicago and of nearby cities in Northern Indiana.

Northern Michigan specializes in growing white grapes and is known for its reislings which grow well in the summer months and late fall which Traverse City is known for.

The proclamation was published four months after the signing of the Treaty, in the New Zealand Advertiser and Bay Of Islands Gazette issue of 19 June 1840, the proclamation " asserts on the grounds of Discovery, the Sovereign Rights of Her Majesty over the Southern Islands of New Zealand, commonly called ' The Middle Island ' ( South Island ) and ' Stewart ’ s Island ' ( Stewart Island / Rakiura ); and the Island, commonly called ' The Northern Island ', having been ceded in Sovereignty to Her Majesty.

They finally surrendered June 1865, two months after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Northern Michigan specializes in growing white grapes and is known for its Rieslings which grow well in the summer months and late fall which Traverse City is known for.

401-402: Seattle-Portland ( 4 months per year ) – joint Coast Pool train with Northern Pacific Railway and Union Pacific Railroad

In 1604, a few months after its inauguration by the Bishop of Mechelen, the new chapel was looted by Northern troops.

The station was opened by Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway on 11 April 1907, four months after services on the rest of the line began operating on 15 December 1906.