PHOTO GALLERY: A heated summer solstice
June 20, 2012 | 6:16 p.m. CDT
The summer solstice — the official beginning of summer — arrived at 6:09 p.m. in Columbia and Wednesday is the longest day of the year. Across the country, temperatures rose to near-record highs.
Thousands of yoga enthusiasts convene in New York's Times Square to mark the summer solstice Wednesday.
| MARK LENNIHAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nicholas McGrath, 3, of Arizona plays in a fountain in New York on Wednesday. The National Weather Service has forecast potentially record-breaking temperatures just as the season officially begins Wednesday, the summer solstice and longest day of the year.
| SETH WENIG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The sunrise is photographed from the Stonehenge replica at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa, Texas, on Wednesday.
| MARK STERKEL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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