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<\/p>\nWhen sunbeams radiate precisely with Manhattan\u2019s crosstown streets, many New Yorkers pause from the bustle to get a glimpse of the sunset phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow morning, around 7:20 a.m., people in the borough can witness a similar phenomenon known as Reverse Manhattanhenge, the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n
\u201cManhattanhenge, obviously, is the sunset, and this is the reverse. We can see it [the sun] kind of lined up with our east-to-west grid there in Manhattan during sunrise,\u201d National Weather Service meteorologist Dominic Ramunni said.<\/p>\n
Reverse Manhattanhenge happens twice a year, before and after the winter solstice, with the first one this year occurring Jan. 11 and 12.<\/p>\n
Ramunni said cloudy skies made the event too difficult to see on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Ideal locations to see Manhattanhenge include 57th Street, 34th Street and 14th Street, according to the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation.<\/p>\n
During the winter months, the phenomenon can typically be caught in the same places but in the opposite direction, meteorologists say. Better views are usually available farther west.<\/p>\n
Yet the reverse phenomenon is less popular than Manhattanhenge, in part due to frigid winter temperatures, The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac said.<\/p>\n
Temperatures on Monday morning are expected to be in the mid-30s, with dry conditions, meteorologists said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks like we’ll have few enough clouds in the sky that it probably\u201d will be visible, Ramunni said in a phone interview on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In 1997, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson conceived of the term Manhattanhenge, inspired by a trip to the prehistoric\u00a0Stonehenge\u00a0structure\u00a0in England, according to The Associated Press. Tyson, who grew up in New York, saw similarities between how sunlight struck Manhattan\u2019s urban skyline and Stonehenge.<\/p>\n
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Tiffany Cusaac-Smith is a general assignment reporter for Newsday. She\u00a0previously worked at USA TODAY and is an alum of Howard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When sunbeams radiate precisely with Manhattan\u2019s crosstown streets, many New Yorkers pause from the bustle to get a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[34965,1999,79,193],"class_list":["post-403169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-environment-and-nature","tag-new-york-city","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}