Our chronicles as we create our off-grid homestead in Interior Alaska -- from escaping the rat race and big city, to extreme cold weather subsistence/self-sufficient living just outside the Arctic Circle.
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
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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
Shouldn't it be sun does not set?
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
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