The National Weather Forecast for this Thursday before Independence Day 2025 shows high temperatures that come in at least 90 plains, in the middle of the plains, thatlantic and Oklahoma to the Southwest desert.
The temperatures of ninety degree also arrive in California (save for the Pacific edge), as well as Nevada, East Ownon and Most Idonho. Temperatures at or above 100 degrees are expected for Southwest Texas, Southern and Western Arizona, Southern Nevada and South-east California. Some desert locations can appear at air temperatures in the air that approaches 110 degrees.
With hot temperatures like this, it may be a surprise for you to hear that on Thursday, July 3 at 3:55 pm EDT (1955 GMT), our WORLD come that point in this orbit where it is farthest from the sun in space.
Since Kepler’s movement laws dictate that celestial orbiting bodies are more slowly to go to the sun, only a little in 19 kilometers per second) as compared to all of the perihelon.
Called Aphelion, the Sun at that moment will be 94,502,939 miles (152,087,738 km) from our earth (measured from center to center), or 3,096,946 miles (4,984,946 miles (4,984,946 miles) Farth as compared to when the earth was closest to it (called perihelion) last Jan. 4. Put another way, we are 16.62 light seconds farther from our local star than perihelon in January. Distance difference equals 3.277 percent, showing the sun 6.55 percent of dimmer today than in January; A change in only one side of 30.
Rotation, not the distance makes the difference
Indeed, it’s probably no surprise that if you ask people in which month of the year they believe that the earth is closest to the sun, most probably would say we’re closest during june, July or August. But our warm weather has nothing to do with our distance from the sun. It’s because of the 23.5-degree tilt of the Earth’s axis that the sun is above the horizon for different lengths of time and different seasons. Tilt determines when the sun’s rays hit us at a low angle or more straight.
In the New York latitude, the more close direct rays of Summer Solstice On June 20 brings about three times hotter as the most striking rays of winter solstice in December so the noticeable differences in temperatures registered in different parts of the world.
A climatological fallcy
When I attended Junior High School, my Earth Science Science science told us that because we were far from July, that such difference was interesting in summer – at least in the northern hemisphere.
That certainly seemed to make sense, and yet the truth of the matter is that the preponderance of large land masses in the northern hemisphere works the other way and actually tends to make our Northern winters colder and the summers hotter!
Interestingly, times the land is at the closest points from the sun from the sun in accordance with two important holidays on the day of the day and the day of the new year.
For Canadian residents, the Aphelion nearly agrees with their national holiday – Canada Day – July 1.
But indeed, depending on the year, the date of the perihelon may vary from January 1 to 5 and the date of visit may vary from July 2 to July 6.
Joe Rao serves as a teacher and guest lecturer in New York’s Hayden Planetarium. He wrote about astronomy for Magazine in natural history,, Sky and Telescope and other publications.
