The Northern Hemisphere, which includes the Philippines, will experience on December 21, Wednesday, its longest night and shortest day this year.

“That is when the 2016 winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere will happen,” Dario dela Cruz, astronomy chief of the state weather bureau, said.

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