‘Imiloa December 2024 Sky Watch Aced Hibernal Northern Winter Solstice

Summary: ‘Imiloa December 2024 Sky Watch aced hibernal northern winter solstice Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, even as that day acted as estival southern summer solstice.

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From Kūkaniloko Birthstones State Monument, the alignment of the sun on Dec. 21 or Dec. 22 with Kolekole Pass in leeward (western) O'ahu's Wai'anae Range signals the winter solstice: Daughters of Hawai'i, via Facebook Dec. 21, 2017

‘Imiloa December 2024 Sky Watch aced hibernal northern winter solstice of the Northern Hemisphere Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, even as that day acted as estival southern summer solstice of the Southern Hemisphere.

The winter solstice, also bruited hibernal solstice (from Latin hībernum -ālis, “winter -pertaining” via hībernālis; sōl sistō, “sun to stand still”) began Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. It comes three months after the autumnal, fall, September equinox; six months after the estival, June, summer solstice; nine months after the March, spring, vernal equinox. The two equinoxes and the two solstices respectively defer to two definitive domiciles of our Earth as it did its annual orbit around our solar-system sun.

The northern-autumn, northern-fall, September equinox (from Latin aequus, “equal”; nox, “night”) expresses solar-disk exposure exactly overhead, at our Equator, halfway between Earthly North and South Poles.

The September, northern-fall, northern-autumn equinox features halfway fitting over our Equatorial plane, between the Southern Hemisphere’s Tropic of Capricorn and the Northern Hemisphere’s Tropic of Cancer.

The December, northern-hibernal, northern-winter solstice guards, from north- and south-polar axes getting tilted respectively away from and toward our Sun, the lowest-generated daylight hours all year. The March, northern-spring, northern-vernal (from Latin vērnus -ālis, “spring-pertaining” via vērnālis) equinox has our Sun directly over our Equatorial plane, halfway between Northern and Southern Tropics. The June, northern-estival, northern-summer (from Latin aestās -īvus, “summer -related” via aestīvus -ālis, “summer -pertaining” via aestīvālis) invokes our Sun directly over the Tropic of Cancer.

‘Imiloa December 2024 Sky Watch jubilates, with other North-Pacific islands the hibernal northern winter solstice even as the South-Pacific islands jubilate the December, southern-estival, southern-summer solstice.

The December, northern-hibernal, northern-winter solstice keepsakes, from our north- and south-polar axes keeping tilted respectively away from and toward our Sun, the greatest-kindled night-time all year.

That solstice logs least lapse between one 24 hours’ early-rising and early-setting suns all year even as another day lodges earliest sunrise, still another earliest sunset. The Time and Date dot-com site mentions the northern-winter solstice manifesting respectively earliest-sunrise and earliest-sunset times a few days respectively before and after the December-solstice date. It notes 10 hours 56 minutes 34 seconds between December-solstice sunrise and sunset over Hilo, Hawaii (from Hawaiian hilo, “thread”; ha wai ‘i, “breath life-force supreme”).

‘Imiloa December 2024 Sky Watch, University of Hawaii, Hilo, “Big-Islanded” Hawaii County (from Hawaiian ‘imi loa, “to search far”), observed the 21st-day hibernal northern winter solstice.

Our Sun presented at 6:50 a.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard (2:50 Chamorro, 5:50 Samoa, 8:50 Alaska, 9:50 Pacific, 10:50 Mountain, 11:50 Central, 12:50 p.m. Eastern, 1:50 Atlantic) Time.

Winter-solstice sun-setting quartered 5:47 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard (1:47 Chamorro, 4:47 Samoa, 7:47 Alaska, 8:47 Pacific, 9:47 Mountain, 10:47 Central, 11:47 Eastern, 12:47 p.m. Atlantic) quitting Time. Sunday the 1st realized 6:38 a.m. Hawaiian-Aleutian Standard (2:38 Chamorro, 5:38 Samoa, 8:38 Alaska, 9:38 Pacific, 10:38 Mountain, 11:38 Central, 12:38 p.m. Eastern, 1:38 Atlantic) sun-rising. That sun set at 5:40 p.m. Hawaiian-Aleutian Standard (1:40 Chamorro, 4:40 Samoa, 7:40 Alaska, 8:40 Pacific, 9:40 Mountain, 10:40 Central, 11:40 Eastern, 12:40 p.m. Atlantic) Time.

‘Imiloa December 2024 Sky Watch termed December hibernal northern winter solstice shortest year-2024 day even as December 1st tendered earliest sunrise, earliest sunset, longest sunrise-sunset transpiring.

Will the 2024 winter solstice shine on a snow-covered Maunakea? W.M. Keck Observatory's dormant shield volcano experienced an autumnal snowfall, as announced Sunday, Oct. 27, via Facebook by Maunakea VIS (Visitor Information Station); about two inches (five centimeters) fell, according to Associated Press reporter Audrey McAvoy ("'Winter is here': Snow covers Hawaii's Mauna Kea," Fox 13 News at 4, Seattle, Nov. 1, 2024); photo of Maunakea by Mari-Ela David Chock, Communications Officer at W. M. Keck Observatory, Waimea, Hawai'i County, north central Hawai'i ("the Big Island"): W. M. Keck Observatory, via Facebook Dec. 21, 2022

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From Kūkaniloko Birthstones State Monument, the alignment of the sun on Dec. 21 or Dec. 22 with Kolekole Pass in leeward (western) O'ahu's Wai'anae Range signals the winter solstice: Daughters of Hawai'i, via Facebook Dec. 21, 2017, @ https://www.facebook.com/DaughtersHawaii/posts/pfbid0P6iLETv9fLxNPQ9ZvJ3TZEjkKXbhTFfhdppjSf6gDqYj4urdQqvrMyKMR1hJFXZVl; via Facebook Dec. 21, 2017, @ https://www.facebook.com/DaughtersHawaii/photos/winter-solstice-when-the-sun-is-as-far-south-as-possible-will-occur-tomorrow-dec/10156016477088829/

Will the 2024 winter solstice shine on a snow-covered Maunakea? W.M. Keck Observatory's dormant shield volcano experienced an autumnal snowfall, as announced Sunday, Oct. 27, via Facebook by Maunakea VIS (Visitor Information Station); about two inches (five centimeters) fell, according to Associated Press reporter Audrey McAvoy ("'Winter is here': Snow covers Hawaii's Mauna Kea," Fox 13 News at 4, Seattle, Nov. 1, 2024); photo of Maunakea by Mari-Ela David Chock, Communications Officer at W. M. Keck Observatory, Waimea, Hawai'i County, north central Hawai'i ("the Big Island"): W. M. Keck Observatory, via Facebook Dec. 21, 2022, @ https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=10159396124983247&id=258556413246; Maunakea VIS, via Facebook Oct. 27, 2024, @ https://www.facebook.com/OnizukaCenter/posts/992254216250295; Audrey McAvoy, via Fox 13 Seattle @ https://www.fox5dc.com/news/winter-snow-hawaiis-mauna-kea

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