While Mondays sometimes feel like the longest day of the year, the Summer Solstice, today, is in fact the day we see the most sunlight, and we call it the first day of summer.
Meteorologist with Environment Canada Terri Lang said that, more accurately, it's the first day of summer from an astronomical standpoint only.
"We've already started meteorological summer, which we consider June, July, August, but astronomical summer starts now, which means that the sun is at the highest angle that it will be for the year," she explained. "After this, it will start going down from there."
The shortest nights are last night and tonight, and the longest day began with a sunrise at 4:48 a.m. this morning, and a sunset at 9:07 p.m.
"That gives us about 16 hours and 19 minutes of extra sunlight to work with," Lang added. "Now we know, everything will just go downhill from here."
She said the days will start getting shorter, but of course, "very incrementally".