Short Days In Winter

Why Days Are Too Short In Winter 

Normally, we notice that the days of winter are short, as the winter comes days starts to short means the time for the sun rises become short because the sun appears directly overhead at 23.5 degrees south latitude, along the Tropic of Capricorn. While the Southern Hemisphere enjoys its longest day of the year, we here in the Northern Hemisphere see the sun follow its lowest and shortest path across the southern sky. For the next six months, the days will gradually lengthen as our hemisphere begins to tilt back toward the sun. This condition is generally known as Winter solstice. 

It’s a phenomenon of astronomy that in winter the sun rises only 9 or 8 hours but nights are very long. The longest night in year is in the month   of  December, usually 22 to 25 of December.

The earliest sunset and latest sunrise dates differ from winter solstice. The shortest day of the winter consider to be the peak of the winter season, because in which the temperature decrease almost - 40 Degrees in Western Countries. In History, On January 20, 1954, Rogers Pass Montana, USA is a place of the extreme temperature of −70 °F (−57 °C) was recorded as the coldest place in the world. In 1950 January, Fort Selkirk is a place of coldest temperature of -74 °F. Recent, the most coldest place is Vostok in Antartica, in which temperature decreases upto −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).