Saturday is the darkest day of the year.
The solstice occurs at the same instant everywhere on Earth: Here in the United States, it happens at 11:19 p.m. EST Saturday .
However, most locations don't have their earliest sunset or latest sunrise on the solstice. Those events occur either weeks before or after Dec. 21. This lag in temperature occurs because even though the amount of daylight is increasing, the Earth's surface continues to lose more heat than it receives from the sun. In most locations across the U.S., the minimum daily temperature occurs around two or three weeks later, in early to mid-January.
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