It will be a sunshine tsunami for one northern Alaskan town for the next 83 days.
It may not look like it because of the clouds and fog, but Utqiagvik, Alaska, has begun their 83-day sunset-less streak, the National Weather Service says.
The nearly three-month period of 24/7 daylight happens in America's northernmost town, formerly known as Barrow, every year because of theEver since the sun rose from weeks of darkness in late January, the town has been gaining some 10 to 15 minutes of daylight per day. That equates to gaining more than an hour of sunshine every week.
Even with 24 hours of daylight, the approximately 5,000 residents in the Alaskan community located about 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle will still have to deal with cold temperatures. The National Weather Service in Fairbanks reports July is typically the warmest month for Utqiagvik. The average high only reaches a balmy 48 degrees and average lows are just above freezing at 36 degrees.
Despite the chilly summers, these temperatures are warm enough to melt the ice around the Arctic Circle and allow for cargo shipments by barge to reach America’s Last Frontier.even though the community has modernized, fishing, hunting and whaling are still staples in the community that is dominated by Iñupiat Alaskan Natives.
Meteorologists say because the Arctic Circle is now home to 24 hours of daylight, the visibility of theThe area will quickly lose daylight during the late summer until mid-November when
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