The Summer of 2015 Just Got Longer!

With yesterday's snow and today's cold temperatures, it's easy to daydream about the warm summer sunshine -- and this coming summer just got longer!

If you're already planning your summer fun, you have a little more time to work with -- "little" being the key word. You see, the earth doesn't rotate in exactly 24 hours. Just as we have a leap day every four years, scientists have to slightly adjust the clock a little more often to keep things in sync. So, to accomplish that, people who figure this kind of stuff out for a living will be adding one second to the end of Tuesday, June 30th, 2015. That day will be 86,401 seconds long instead of the normal 86,400.

Yes, the summer of 2015 just got longer -- that's an extra second of partying or, more likely, sleeping! And I guess we should be thankful they didn't make winter longer...