Tomorrow is the first day of winter and also the shortest day of the year. Here in ABQ on Saturday we’ll have 9 hours, 47 minutes of daylight. That’s 4 hours and 44 minutes less than the longest day of the year in June.
The best to place to be for daylight right now is Hawaii, where the day will be just shy of 11 hours long.
The worst place to be is Northern Alaska, where the day has 0 hours of daylight.
We officially hit winter at 2:21a MST early tomorrow morning.
If you want to learn more about the winter solstice, check out this great feature from the National Weather Service.
And check out this great White Christmas in New Mexico feature.