When is it dark in alaska
Darkness in Alaska | Is It Really As Bad As They Say It Is?
well it's 8:30 this morning
and you can see the moon up there you
can see it's really really dark and
there's our Christmas tree reflected in
our window it's pretty cold outside I
don't think I can't even open open the
door because it's a slider because it's
froze shut but today is winter solstice
and it is the shortest day of the year
there we go - Lon it's dropping getting
colder out I guess that's fitting for
the first day of winter
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just enjoying a nice cold morning on the
couch in a warm house a shortest day of
the year
well we're starting to get some those
are lights reflecting in the window but
we're starting to get some light it
looks like the Sun might be above the
horizon line this time of year we
actually don't get Sun here at the house
so it never pops up above the mountains
we lose it for about four weeks so we'll
start seeing it come up above the
mountains there but it's at a pretty low
angle right now you can still see the
moon out kind of pretty with just a
little sliver
eight weeks that's sad
maybe six weeks somewhere in the middle
25th of January we lives of great weeks
sometime in November yeah so we listed
the Sun behind the mountains for eight
weeks so we don't see the Sun from our
house it's kind of a bummer but you know
we make up for it in summer and we end
up having more daylight than everybody
else in the lower 48 but we like it
right here I have some vitamin D you get
that from the Sun figure shortest day of
the year probably need some vitamin D
okay this is like the maximum Sun height
right now it's 1:30 today and with the
time zones
we're offset because Alaska is so much
farther west and we're only an hour off
the west coast time but we're like two
time zones away so this would be like
11:30 in the middle of a time zone and
when the Sun hits at its peak or its
peak at noon but it hits its peak at
like around two o'clock so or 1:32
between 1:30 and 2:00 here and so this
is like the peak time of the Sun right
now it's you said it's about 1:30 and
this is the max daylight will have today
and the Sun won't even clear the
mountains it's pretty crazy
the birds are down here getting their
food and chickadees are feasting on the
bird food the kids put out for them
they're pretty happy
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all right it's 3:30 and the Sun is
starting to go down you can see by the
clouds but it's a pretty short day today
so when our solstice pretty neat
alright it is 4:30 and there's still a
little bit of light in the sky but
that's gonna go pretty fast
so by a quarter to five I'm guessing
that all the light will be gone or
pretty close to it so anyways it's
heading down and we're going into the
dark for the end of the night well it's
five o'clock and there's actually just a
little bit of light in the sky which is
amazing to me it's just a little teeny
bit but this is the shortest day of the
year and it got light what at about hmm
it's about this light at about 9:00 a.m.
this morning
8:45 maybe and so say 9:00 to 5:00 so
you got eight hours of like actually a
little bit of light coming off the sky
to light so about eight hours maybe two
hours of that is Twilight but it's not
as bad as people make it out to be at
least not here in south-central Alaska
so but we're really excited now because
the days start getting longer from here
on out and that means that winter will
be more fun as we get into January in
February and then the best winter month
of them all is March so we're really
excited for that and we'll catch you
later happy winter solstice
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