Summer Solstice 2015: Data on the longest day of the year

Satellite images show how the sunlight falls on the Earth at different points during a year. The Earth is displayed in the Winter Solstice December 21, 2010 (top left), the spring equinox March 20, 2011 (top right), the summer solstice June 21, 2011 (top left) the autumnal equinox September 20, 2011 (bottom right).

By Leigh Morgan

 

 

Today - 21 June 2015 - is the summer solstice, or longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere.

The exact time of the solstice this year was 11:39 CDT. This is the time that the steeper the land of sun and sunlight received.

You can squeeze a few more minutes of daylight on Sunday, depending on where you live.

The further north you are, the better your day will be. For example, at Point Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost point of the United States, the sun all day and it is not defined.

In Key West, Fla., The southernmost point of the United States, the sun will rise on Sunday at 6:39 ET 8:19 EDT attached to a day length of 13 hours, 39 minutes and 41 seconds.

Besides being the longest day of the year, the summer solstice also marks the beginning of summer - at least by some standards. (Meteorological been started on 1 June)

Of course, the longest day of the year does not make for the hottest days of the year.

In the coming months, the atmosphere and the oceans of the northern hemisphere will absorb - and release slowly - the sun's energy.

Although more energy absorption takes place in the summer solstice, it will take about six weeks to make us feel higher temperatures.

Some other things you should know about the summer solstice:

The summer solstice occurs when the sun is directly over the Tropic of Cancer, located at latitude 23.5 degrees north. (Runs through Mexico, the Bahamas, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and southern China.) The sun will be directly over the Tropic of Cancer at 11:39 CDT June 21, 2015 . Across the north, the sun is at its highest point in the sky and this is the longest day of the year, according to the National Weather Service.

The summer solstice in the northern hemisphere occurs when the winter solstice occurs in the southern hemisphere. His days are now beginning to be longer than days in the northern hemisphere begins to shorten.

Today, perhaps the longest day of the year, but probably not the hottest. According to the National Weather Service, about a six-week period between the longest day of the year and an average summer temperature of most media sites and high latitude.

Although the summer solstice marks the beginning of summer for many, is actually the middle of the season.

Your shadow at solar noon is the shortest of the year.

At low latitudes hour days are shorter, but the sun reaches its highest point in the sky.

The summer solstice is one of the first sunrise of the year the sun (but not necessarily the oldest). For example, Birmingham was his first release on June 8 to 17, at 5:37 CDT. Birmingham sunny Sunday morning will be at 5:38 (the first sunrise of Huntsville sun was 5:33 on June 6 to 20, but the sun will rise at 5:34 Sunday. First mobile dom dawn They were at 5:49 CDT on June 5 -17. Sunday sunrise sunset will 5:51)

Twilight in the northern hemisphere solstice is higher than at any time of the year.

The days gradually grow shorter after the solstice in June The shortest day of the year will be December 21 at 10:49 p.m. CT.

The summer solstice usually occurs on June 20 or 21, and rarely on June 22. According TimeandDate.com, the next solstice of June 22 will not be until 2203. The last was in 1975.

Yes, you can get an egg on its end of the summer solstice. But you can do all year, if you are sick. It is a myth that there is a gravitational equilibrium particular Solstice

Back It Up: Ensure Your Data Survives Disaster

Back It Up: Ensure Your Data Survives Disaster (photo: Pixland/Pixland/Getty Images)

 

It's astonishing when you sit and consider the measure of trust we have given our PCs. We spare our photographs, features, music, basic records, and all the more on our hard drives without the slightest hesitation. We assume that our machine will work, for quite a while, keeping our data secure and (to some degree) sorted out. Obviously, this trust is fortified by the true serenity you've accomplished from going down your PC all the time. You are frequently moving down your PC, correct?

Moving down a PC can appear as though its a confused errand, or that it will take a lot of time to keep up. Luckily, neither one of the statements is valid. Setting up and aintaining your reinforcement -on Windows or Mac- -is a basic process and should be possible in little time.

Local backups

Both Windows and OS X offer a local answer for going down your PC by regional standards -as such, to a hard commute that is close to your PC, either an organized commute or a USB joined commute. The setup procedure is really direct regardless of the fact that you have little tech information. I'll talk about how to do this for both Windows 7 and Windows 8 and in addition OS X for you Mac clients.

Before you can move down your PC, you're going to need an outside hard commute. Contingent upon the size and model of the drive, it may wind up being a pricey venture.

A decent general guideline when obtaining an outside hard commute for reinforcement is to get one that is about 1.5 times the extent of the hard commute in your PC. For instance, if your PC has a 500GB hard commute, purchase nothing littler than 750GB. This isn't a necessity, yet the greater commute size will permit the reinforcement project to store different reinforcements that compass a more extended time of time. This is perfect for circumstances when it takes you months to acknowledge you lost an imperative record, thus the document is on a more seasoned reinforcement.

Backing up a Windows machine(photo: Demand Media)

 

Windows 7 and Windows 8 every take an alternate way to deal with moving down your records.

Windows 7 clients need to set up what's called "Windows Backup." To do this, tap the Start catch and sort "reinforcement" into the pursuit bar. At that point tap on "Reinforcement & Restore." You can then choose a hard commute as your reinforcement destination. You can likewise set how visit the reinforcement procedure will keep running, with the most successive time being before a day. It's likewise a savvy thought to make a framework picture of your PC through the Windows Backup menu. Doing as such will permit you to load a clear hard commute with a definite copy of your present setup.

Windows 8 clients can point of interest of another element called File History. Document History makes an hourly reinforcement of your most vital records. In the event that you inadvertently erase a document, or just choose you need to begin once again on a task from a prior spare, you can then skim through and restore a record or whole organizer.

You can discover the settings for File History in your Control Panel, or via looking for "Record History" from your Windows 8 home screen. Once dispatched, you can then choose an associated or system drive to store your reinforcements on. You'll likewise have the capacity to control what records and envelopes are went down, how regularly and to what extent the documents are put away.

To restore a record on either form of Windows you have to relaunch the reinforcement program and scan through the reinforcement until you discover the document or organizer you require.

Backing up a Mac

(photo: Demand Media)

Apple's OS X working framework incorporates a component called Time Machine. Time Machine will move down your PC to an outside hard commute on normal premise. As your reinforcement plate starts to top off, Time Machine will naturally erase the most seasoned reinforcements; ensuring accessible space on the reinforcement circle at all times.

You have the alternative to utilize an associated or arranged outside hard commute with Time Machine. The first occasion when you join an outside hard commute to your Mac, Time Machine will dispatch inquiring as to whether you'd like to utilize the plate as a reinforcement circle. You can then take after the prompts and let Time Machine start the hourly reinforcements.

In the event that you erase a record or choose to begin once again from a prior spare point, you can enter Time Machine and restore the document with a couple clicks. You can even restore whole client records, settings and applications from Time Machine ought to a hard commute fizzle, or you buy another PC and need it to reflect your old PC.

Off-site reinforcements

Going down by regional standards is a helpful and simple technique for keeping your information safe. In any case, there are dangers: Your neighborhood hard commute can crash, succumb to a glass of water, or be inundated in a house fire. All of which will abandon you without your information. In view of that, we should discuss moving down your information to an off-site area.

In days of olde, off-site reinforcement implied duplicating your information to a drive that was then secured a sheltered 10 miles away. Nowadays, its a ton less demanding: You can simply utilize an online reinforcement administration.

There are a considerable measure of online reinforcement administrations accessible, yet I'll confine my dialog to only two of them: CrashPlan and Carbonite.

Both administrations charge a month to month or yearly expense to naturally reinforcement your information on remote servers through a subtle system introduced on your PC.

CrashPlan costs $5.99 every month for boundless stockpiling with only one PC, or $13.99 every month for up to 10 PCs. You can spare a couple of dollars off the month to month cost on the off chance that you pay for a whole year ahead of time. Any CrashPlan value arrangement covers Mac or Windows based PCs. You can read all the more about CrashPlan's estimating by taking after the connection in the Resource segment beneath.

Carbonite's evaluating begins at $59 every year for boundless stockpiling with one PC, Mac or Windows. From that point it goes up to $99 or $149 every year, including more reinforcement components however dropping Mac support. You'll likewise discover a connection to Carbonite's evaluating in the Resource segment underneath.

Both administrations will just take a couple of minutes to setup. You sign up, download and introduce the particular program and let it perform the beginning reinforcement. When set up the applications will keep running out of sight, unbeknownst to you, and reinforcement your information all the time. Should you have to restore your records, you can get to them through the application, Web website or cell phone application.

Which technique do you utilize?

In a perfect world - both.

Repetition is the name of the diversion with regards to going down and securing your information. It's justified, despite all the trouble to invest the energy and cash on an outer hard commute, and all the while go down your information to an online administration. Not just will you profit by having the capacity to rapidly restore a document put away on a neighborhood drive, however if you - paradise disallow - lose your outer hard commute in a surge or flame, despite everything you'll have the off-site reinforcement of your information to restore.

However, in the event that you need to pick only one strategy, run with an off-site administration. The forthright cost is lower (when contrasted with purchasing an outside hard commute) and you're information is decent and safe somewhere else.

 

Precautions for OoVoo

 

• Like other feature, sound and content talk programs, ooVoo has efforts to establish safety set up that keep your record from being abused. For instance, each ooVoo client has an alternate name and watchword that helps keep your record secure and keeps different clients from getting to your own ooVoo data.. Taking extra safety measures will help you keep your record and the data traded from it secure.

• Account Privacy

• A standout amongst the most essential safeguards you can take when utilizing ooVoo is keeping your record secure. While other ooVoo clients will include you with your username, you ought to never impart your watchword to someone else; nor if you let other ooVoo clients realize what email location is connected with your record. Keeping other individuals off your ooVoo record will help guarantee nobody gets entrance to your contact list and other individual information. In the event that you utilize ooVoo on a cell phone or PC and recovery your secret key for the system, consider watchword ensuring your gadget.

• Including Contacts

• Something else to remember when utilizing ooVoo is which gets in touch with you need to include. A few individuals use ooVoo to meet new companions, while others utilize it to identify with individuals they know, in actuality. On the off chance that you don't need outsiders to discover your profile and include you as a companion, open your Settings menu and alter your controls so you don't show up in hunts. You can likewise shroud your birthday and other individual data from other ooVoo clients here.

• Feature Chat

• When you do use feature visit on ooVoo, there's no ensure that the individual on the flip side isn't recording you and that there's no other individual in the room out of your scope of perspective. Never do anything while feature visiting on ooVoo that you wouldn't need other individuals to see. The most ideal approach to stay safe when feature talking on ooVoo is to just talk with individuals you know and trust. On the off chance that you ever feel uncomfortable amid a feature call, end it quickly.

• Other Security Measures

• When you're on ooVoo, never give out specifically distinguishing data to individuals you don't know, in actuality. Remember that neither the sound or feature traded on ooVoo is scrambled, so its critical that you don't share anything delicate, similar to bank passwords. In case you're dealing with an ooVoo represent your kid, consider setting up sure times when he can utilize the project, and after that be in the same space to screen the feature and sound that is traded amid an ooVoo session. You ought to additionally stay informed regarding his watchword, so you can see who is including your youngster as a companion on ooVoo.