By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-20 09:09:45 | Updated at 2024-11-20 11:40:48
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Sun Sets in America's Northernmost Town, Won't Rise Again for 2 Months
Newsweek ^ | 11/19/24 | Anna Skinner
Posted on 11/20/2024 12:54:01 AM PST by Libloather
Residents in America's northernmost town of Utqiagvik, Alaska, saw their last sunrise for two months on Monday.
The sun set at 1:27 p.m. local time on Monday and won't rise again until 1:15 p.m. on January 22, the Washington Post reported, where it will shine for less than an hour before sinking once more.
This months long period of darkness is known as the polar night. Daylight will then gradually increase each day until the sun remains in the sky for 24 hours a day for roughly two months, in what is known as the midnight sun, during the summer months.
In the winter, the Northern Hemisphere tilts away from the sun, causing residents in Utqiagvik, which is situated at the very top of Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, to experience uninterrupted darkness for approximately two months, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tom Kines told Newsweek.
Currently, typical temperatures in the area are around 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit. They drop by about a degree a day until January, when they average below zero, Kines said.
Despite the sun's absence, the northern lights still occur. Storms also are still possible, AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tyler Roys previously told Newsweek.
Kines added that it's not completely dark all the time during the polar night, as the sky brightens slightly in what he described as "twilight."
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TOPICS: History; Local News; Outdoors; Weather
KEYWORDS: alaska; america; rise; sun
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Change the clocks? Why?
1 posted on 11/20/2024 12:54:01 AM PST by Libloather
To: Libloather
It's stupid...Politicians thought it up. Just like they thought up man-made climate change. Stay out of God's business.
Up north...the kids now go to school in the dark.
2 posted on 11/20/2024 12:57:15 AM PST by Sacajaweau
To: Sacajaweau
I can also do without that extra hour of sunlight. Burns my grass. I’m guessing they don’t have that particular problem.
3 posted on 11/20/2024 1:02:43 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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