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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Sun Will Set In Barrow, Alaska This Afternoon And Won't Rise Again Until 2020
Utqiagvik, Alaska (formally known as Barrow) just plunged into polar darkness that will last the next two months. Today, the sun will set on the city of around 4,300 residents for the final time of 2019. The next dawn will be January 23, 2020. Thats a period of 67 days of total darkness.
Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Utqiagvik is the northernmost city in the United States. Its located 2,000 miles north of Seattle, Washington.
https://unofficialnetworks.com/2019/11/18/barrow-alaska-winter/
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HAB911
(8,891 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)2 months of no sun
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Helps explain why AK didn't fight to have its primary in February like so many others, waiting for April 4. Just looked, and in Utqiagvik April's the first month with average daily temperatures above 0.
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)mostly aren't allowed to go outside by themselves in winter, even with sun, when temperatures can kill in short order.
Thinking having functional families would be especially important up there, over past centuries to survival itself.
world wide wally
(21,742 posts)Why don't they just stay on Daylight Savings time?
Sheesh.
edhopper
(33,575 posts)this or 24 hours of sun in Summer?
GusBob
(7,286 posts)When I was assigned there we had to go thru a psychological profile because some folks from outside would go nuts either dark or light
Texin
(2,596 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)The 24 hours of daylight can be more disconcerting believe it or not
For one thing the Natives ride their machines around all night long and its harder to sleep
underpants
(182,791 posts)It is fascinating to me though.
LeftInTX
(25,305 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)sleeping in an empty bed...
JHB
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