Elementary school students at St. Andrew's Priory in Honolulu got a sense of the Lahaina Noon phenomenon on Friday, May 27, in their play yard. At 12:28 p.m. when the sun was directly overhead, vertical objects lost their shadows. Lower school principal Judy Ezra demonstrated by carrying a tetherball around its pole as students observed. Students came out at 9:55 a.m. and stood on a line as classmates traced their shadows in chalk on the macadam. At Lahaina Noon the same children returned to their original positions to find their shadows had disappeared. Hawaii is the only U.S. state that experiences Lahaina Noon because the subsolar point travels only through the tropics.

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