Monday, June 20, 2011

Midnight Sun

Thought I'd share a screenshot of the daylight info posted on Weather Underground for us today. Always great to see the phrase "Sun does not rise" without it being a reference to Armageddon  LOL

4 comments:

Faith said...

So cool! Alaska has probably the highest population of insomniacs per capita in the US. It gets dim down here in Willow but still bright enough to read the paper. I love Alaska summer.

Plickety Cat said...

I've always been a night person, so it's cool for me to still have daylight during my normal waking hours. Oh course, I also love winter when it's "night" all day, too :)

Since I haven't had any sort of regular sleeping pattern from about puberty, and am classified as a chronic insomniac anyway, all the wonky polar sunlight stuff doesn't mess me up as badly as it can other folks. But it probably would if I had to follow some kind of work schedule or something.

Marybeth said...

Shouldn't it be sun does not set?

Plickety Cat said...

Semantically, yes, it should be "sun never sets" since it can't rise if it never set (which is the case in summer). Winter is when the sun never (or barely) rises. But I think it's a chicken and egg thing to most folks LOL