Night and Day Will Be Equal..Friday
The AlOjeiri Scientific Center announced that "Kuwait will witness equal hours of day and night on Friday, September 27, marking the beginning of the fall season."
The center added in a statement to Al-Rai that "summer officially ends astronomically on September 22 each year when the sun's rays are directly overhead at the equator, and the day and night become equal, a phenomenon known as the 'autumnal equinox.'" It noted that "the equinox begins when the angle of sunlight decreases to 60 degrees in the skies over Kuwait."
The statement continued, saying, "On the 27th, the hours of day and night will be equal in Kuwait, with the sun rising at 5:39 AM and setting at 5:39 PM."
It pointed out that "with the autumnal equinox, the night will gradually increase at the expense of the day, which will continue to decrease in hours, while the long nights will begin to gradually dominate until the arrival of spring."
The center explained that "astronomically, the rotation of the Earth around the sun causes its rays to appear to move in both the northern and southern directions, passing through the Earth's equator. The sun's rays reach the northern and southern poles of the Earth during specific periods. During the Earth's annual rotation around the sun, the sun's rays are directly overhead at the equator twice a year: once at the beginning of spring (the spring equinox) on March 20, and the second time at the beginning of autumn, known as the autumnal solstice, in the latter part of September each year."