Fifteen hours, 4 minutes.
That’s how much daylight the Pittsburgh region will see Wednesday during the summer solstice — the official start of summer and longest day of the year, when the sun takes the northernmost path through the sky.
The result is short nights, early dawns and late sunsets.
The sunrise in Pittsburgh was at 5:49 a.m. Sunset was scheduled for 8:53 p.m.
The exact start of summer in Pittsburgh is at 10:57 a.m. Wednesday, according to TimeandDate.com.
The solstice will be accompanied by partly sunny skies and a high near 81 in the Pittsburgh region, according to the National Weather Service.
At Stonehenge in England, thousands of druids, pagans, hippies, local residents and tourists gathered to welcome the sunrise and kick off summer.
