{"id":33849,"date":"2025-07-02T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33849\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T23:43:09","slug":"summer-2025-will-have-three-of-the-shortest-days-on-record-as-earths-rotation-unexpectedly-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/33849\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2025 will have three of the shortest days on record as Earth&#8217;s rotation unexpectedly accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time is not on your side this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Earth is set to have three remarkably shorter than average days in the coming weeks as the Earth\u2019s rotation unexpectedly accelerates, according to scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Our pale blue dot\u2019s daily rotation is normally equivalent to about 86,400 seconds \u2014 or 24 hours \u2014 but three days this summer will see as much as 1.51 milliseconds shaved off the clock, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/environment\/a65192314\/shortest-day-earth-rotation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">report from Popular Mechanics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36419889\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/australia-sunrise-elements-image-furnished-107519936.jpg\" alt=\"Sunrise over Australia and surrounding islands.\" class=\"wp-image-36419889\"  \/>Earth is set to have three days this summer as much as 1.51-milliseconds shorter than a normal day. 1xpert \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n<p>The International Rotation and Reference Systems Service found that July 9, July 22, and August 5 will be victims of the time-slicing, putting them among the shortest since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists said these dates will be when the Moon is furthest from the equator which will impact the rate of the Earth\u2019s rotation, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>The shortest day recorded since 2020 was July 5, 2024, which was a full 1.66 milliseconds shorter than average \u2014 with experts unable to pin down the reason for the increased acceleration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody expected this,\u201d Leonic Zotov, Earth rotation expert from Moscow State University, told <a href=\"http:\/\/timeanddate.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TimeandDate.com<\/a> regarding the quickening trend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of this acceleration is not explained. Most scientists believe it is something inside the Earth. Ocean and atmospheric models don\u2019t explain this huge acceleration,\u201d Zotov added.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.45661451;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36419888\" width=\"859\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2015-photo-shows-second-hand-27861863.jpg\" alt=\"Clock showing 11:59:59, about to add a leap second.\" class=\"wp-image-36419888\"  \/>Since 2020, planet Earth has seen an \u201cunexplained\u201d rotation acceleration. AP<\/p>\n<p>Earth\u2019s official timekeepers may need to take a first-ever drastic measure to keep up with the new pace \u2014 instating a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/27\/lifestyle\/a-faster-spinning-earth-may-cause-timekeepers-to-subtract-negative-leap-second-in-2029\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cnegative leap second\u201d<\/a> in 2029, according to a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/science\/timekeepers-may-subtract-a-second-from-clocks-as-soon-as-2029-as-planet-spins-slightly-faster#:~:text=For%20the%20first%20time%20in,the%20journal%20Nature%20said%20Wednesday.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nature<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an unprecedented situation and a big deal,\u201d study lead author and geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California Duncan Agnew said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a huge change in the Earth\u2019s rotation that\u2019s going to lead to some catastrophe or anything, but it is something notable. It\u2019s yet another indication that we\u2019re in a very unusual time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Days on Earth have not always been 24-hours long, with rotations during the Bronze Age clocking in at roughly 23 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time is not on your side this summer. 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