The State’s Weather Bureau Announced The Longest Day Of The Year
PAGASA – The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration announced the longest day of the year would be on June 21.
CRAZY! Last year the longest day was also experienced on the same date which was also on June 21 (Thursday). The extended daytime is because of the summer solstice.
This year, the summer solstice would also fall on June 21 by 11:54 pm following Philippines Standard Time.
The weather bureau announced that the extended day time could last for 12 hours and 59 minutes long. Specifically, the sun will begin to rise at 5:28 am and will finally set at 6:27 pm.
PAGASA also explained the phenomena occurring when the sun is in its furthest declination of +23.5 degrees and passes over the lands at noon time for all to see at the approximated latitude 23.5 degrees North – also known as the “Tropic of Cancer”.
In addition to this, the summer solstice’ occurrence indicates the occurrence of the sun’s seemingly upward movement in the ecliptic.
This is according to an article from Inquirer.
The phenomena “summer solstice” otherwise known as midsummer normally occurs when either one of the Earth’s poles is tilted to its maximum towards the Sun.
It usually happens twice annually, each of the Earth’s hemisphere experiences one summer solstice a year.
For the hemisphere in which the summer solstice is occurring, the sun attains its furthest position in the skies and the day would have the longest period of daylight due to longer exposure to the sun’s natural illumination.
That is all there is to it, at least for now. We’ll post updates as soon as we got them.