{"id":25662,"date":"2019-05-13T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25662"},"modified":"2019-01-01T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T20:12:45","slug":"lahaina-noon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=25662","title":{"rendered":"L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon is that moment when the Sun is directly overhead. At the moment of L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon shadows disappear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the islands lie south of the Tropic of Cancer<\/a> there is a day when the Sun will pass directly overhead as the summer solstice approaches, generally in late May. There is a second noon as the Sun’s position moves south again in July. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon<\/a> is unique to the islands, being adopted by the Bishop Museum in the 1990’s to describe this event. The Hawaiian term l\u0101 hain\u0101 translates roughly as cruel Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exact date and time varies significantly across the islands and from year to year. The table below shows the time of L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon for various cities in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n \n
Lahiana Noon for May 2019<\/th><\/tr>\n
City<\/td>Long.<\/td>Lat.<\/td>Date<\/td>Time<\/td>Elevation<\/td><\/tr>\n
Naalehu <\/td>155\u00b035’W<\/td>19\u00b003’N<\/td>May15<\/td>12:19HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Hilo <\/td>155\u00b005’W<\/td>19\u00b042’N<\/td>May18<\/td>12:17HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Kona <\/td>155\u00b059’W<\/td>19\u00b039’N<\/td>May18<\/td>12:20HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Waimea <\/td>155\u00b040’W<\/td>20\u00b001’N<\/td>May20<\/td>12:19HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Hawi <\/td>155\u00b050’W<\/td>20\u00b014’N<\/td>May21<\/td>12:20HST<\/td>90.0<\/td><\/tr>\n
Hana <\/td>156\u00b000’W<\/td>20\u00b046’N<\/td>May23<\/td>12:21HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Kihei <\/td>156\u00b027’W<\/td>20\u00b045’N<\/td>May23<\/td>12:23HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Kahalui <\/td>156\u00b028’W<\/td>20\u00b053’N<\/td>May24<\/td>12:23HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Lahaina <\/td>156\u00b040’W<\/td>20\u00b053’N<\/td>May24<\/td>12:23HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Lanai City<\/td>156\u00b055’W<\/td>20\u00b050’N<\/td>May24<\/td>12:24HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Kaunakakai<\/td>157\u00b001’W<\/td>21\u00b005’N<\/td>May25<\/td>12:25HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Honolulu <\/td>157\u00b049’W<\/td>21\u00b018’N<\/td>May26<\/td>12:28HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Kaneohe <\/td>157\u00b048’W<\/td>21\u00b025’N<\/td>May27<\/td>12:28HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Waialua <\/td>158\u00b008’W<\/td>21\u00b034’N<\/td>May28<\/td>12:30HST<\/td>89.9<\/td><\/tr>\n
Lihue <\/td>159\u00b022’W<\/td>21\u00b058’N<\/td>May31<\/td>12:35HST<\/td>90.0<\/td><\/tr>\n
Data from US Naval Observatory Data Services<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon is that moment when the Sun is directly overhead. At the moment of L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon shadows disappear. As the islands lie south of the Tropic of Cancer there is a day when the Sun will pass directly overhead as the summer solstice approaches, generally in late May. There is a second noon as … Continue reading “L\u0101hain\u0101 Noon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[2101,2628,2629,94,75],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25665,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25662\/revisions\/25665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}