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<\/p>\nThe country will have its longest night of the year this Thursday, December 22 as the Sun reaches its winter solstice according to Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical & Astronomical Services Association (PAGASA).<\/p>\n
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LONGEST NIGHT. The Sun reaches the winter solstice, or the farthest point south of the equator, on December 22 at 6:44 pm Philippine Standard Time (PST). Primer file photo<\/em><\/p>\n PAGASA made the announcement<\/a> on their Facebook page last December 1. In an interview with Philstar.com<\/a>, Dario dela Cruz, chief of DOST\u2019s Space Sciences and Astronomy Section, he said \u201cthe duration of the longest night will be most lengthy in extreme northern Luzon and shortest in Mindanao.”<\/p>\n COMPLETION OF ANOTHER CIRCUIT. \u201cEarth has now completed another annual circuit around the Sun.\u201d The Philippine Astronomical Diary, made by PAGASA, tells us when the solstice and equinox happened during 2016. Image grabbed from <\/em>Dost_pagasa Facebook page<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Basco, Batanes will experience the country\u2019s longest night, lasting for 13 hours and 5 minutes. Metro Manila\u2019s night on December 22 will be 12 hours and 46 minutes, while Cebu City will experience a 12-hour, 28-minute night.<\/p>\n General Santos City, one of the southernmost cities in the country, will experience one of the shortest nights by comparison at 12 hours and 14 minutes.<\/p>\n Source: <\/em>PAGASA<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>ABS-CBN News<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Philstar.com<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Philippine News Agency<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The country will have its longest night of the year this Thursday, December 22 as the Sun reaches its winter solstice according to Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical & Astronomical Services Association (PAGASA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1520,1521,1522,857,119,1519],"class_list":["post-11053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-december-22","tag-longest-night","tag-northern-hemisphere","tag-pagasa","tag-philippines","tag-winter-solstice"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/PAGASA-e1482213693901.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11060,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11053\/revisions\/11060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"pagasa\"](\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/PAGASA.jpg\")
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