The Winter Solstice in Nevada is this Saturday, at 9:11 a.m. The Winter Solstice occurs when the sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun, according to timeanddate.com.
Depending on the Gregorian calendar, the December solstice occurs annually on a day between December 20 and December 23.
On this date, all places above a latitude of 66.5 degrees north (Arctic Polar Circle) are now in darkness, while locations below a latitude of 66.5 degrees south (Antarctic Polar Circle) receive 24 hours of daylight.
Note: In layman's terms, all of that scientific information means that beginning on Saturday, Dec. 21 at 9:12 a.m., we begin to slowly move back to the long warm days of summertime.
Yahoo! Summer is coming!