It is the longest day, so it gets the most sunshine, why is it hotter latter in the summer when the days are getting shorter again???
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[this website](https://lincolnweather.unl.edu/data/Lincoln-hottest-day-each-year.asp) has 171 data points of the hottest day of the year in Lincoln Nebraska. Oddly enough, the average hottest day of the year is exactly the summer solstice July 21st. That’s weird that it’s exactly on to me. Especially considering a lot of comments providing very good explanations why it’s not. This was literally the first useful website I found when searching for “hottest day of the year.” We can’t extrapolate from this and say that is the average everywhere, but having such a complete history all in one place is an amazing piece of data to me.
Edit: whoops, June. Oh well, still interesting.
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