{"id":9318,"date":"2024-08-01T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/08\/01\/the-tropics-defined-sun-directly-overhead-on-july-31-in-punta-cana-dr\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:21","slug":"the-tropics-defined-sun-directly-overhead-on-july-31-in-punta-cana-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/08\/01\/the-tropics-defined-sun-directly-overhead-on-july-31-in-punta-cana-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tropics Defined:  Sun Directly Overhead on July 31 in Punta Cana DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgjuEnACndOnzDDoS5hcezv1-Jfhyphenhyphen1S8Oxkm9PTm1z1NrYPZ8cR5jSJKvWJBfMiS6L_QAfrMM0Mwwo95YiL7_ra3HslbETYW23iM2ssQ2cjza3_0PKxi0aYmR_0pGZ6e-rPdOWV2q8z3h-M1spuJf_H4WbS3gm7p9Z5XOKV_XMUDWRgP2UqywsALWtVGVM\/s4032\/IMG_7322.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"4032\" data-original-width=\"3024\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_7322-1.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">July 31, 2024 12:30 Local Time<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Check out the shadow at my feet. The sun is directly overhead. This happens here on July 31, shortly after noon. We define &#8220;the tropics&#8221; as the area of the earth at which &#8212; as some point in the year &#8212; the sun will be directly overhead. Here we are at about 18 degrees North latitude, so for us, the overhead date is July 31. We are definitely in the tropics. A good graphical description of what is happening appears here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.suncalc.org\/#\/18.5548,-68.3853,12\/2024.07.31\/12:37\/1\/3\"><b>https:\/\/www.suncalc.org\/#\/18.5548,-68.3853,12\/2024.07.31\/12:37\/1\/3<\/b><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 31, 2024 12:30 Local Time Check out the shadow at my feet. The sun is directly overhead. This happens here on July 31, shortly after noon. We define &#8220;the tropics&#8221; as the area of the earth at which &#8212; as some point in the year &#8212; the sun will be directly overhead. Here we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/08\/01\/the-tropics-defined-sun-directly-overhead-on-july-31-in-punta-cana-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Tropics Defined:  Sun Directly Overhead on July 31 in Punta Cana DR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dominican-republic","category-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9321,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions\/9321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}