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Charlie G.
post Jun 13 2005, 07:41 PM
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hey mr. crum,

just wanted to find out something, How do people adapt to the almost 24 hrs of sunlight? cool.gif

And if u can tell if the air is much cleaner up there or not? laugh.gif

get back to me when ever

thanks,
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post Jun 13 2005, 08:27 PM
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Charlie,

Thanks for your question. I think because everyone is in the same boat in terms of the light they do ok with it. You just get tired at some point and go to bed even though it is still light out (and will continue to be). From some of the people I talked to the winter is the harder part. Not only is it cold but it is dark for a lot of the day. Just like in NH though when we go to school in the dark and go home in the dark they adapt and make it work. They just have even less light than we do. It appears that once people are here for a while they just don't think of it much anymore.

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post Jun 13 2005, 10:06 PM
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Great question!

Daylight and the weather are two topics that most people in Alaska love to talk about. Many people comment on how hard it must be to live in Alaska with it being so "cold", but in reality, it is the changes in light (depending on where you live and time of year) that is a bigger factor on our psyche. I think most people never get “used to it” but rather learn how to “cope” with it.

The changes in light (particularly the lack of light) can affect people to the point of sickness. In the darker months, people feel “sleepy” and less active – like hibernating bears ☺ People seem to cope with the lack of light by migrating (traveling south in the winter, north in summer), adding full-spectrum lights in workplace or home, using tanning booths, or resorting to therapy and medications. Conversely, in the spring and summer, your body seems to want to stay up round the clock and many people get anxious. To help regulate the light, people block bedroom windows with tinfoil or light blocking curtains.

I hope this provides so more insight to what it is like to live here. ☺
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post Jun 14 2005, 01:28 AM
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The hardest time for me is between Thanksgiving and early January, when it is typically cold as well as dark much of the time. It feels like we are going into a long dark (and depressing) tunnel. The saving grace is the fact that sunrise and sunset last several hours each and even though it is not light out it is not quite dark either for those several hours. But quite a few people that live in Alaska travel to places like Hawaii or Mexico or even further south at that time of year!

Summertime is wonderful. I love all the light and the only thing that makes me anxious is the mosquitoes. biggrin.gif

I wonder if any of you can figure out and tell me how many hours of daylight you would see if you were at Toolik Field Station on 21 December, the shortest day of the year. How is that different from where you live? Here is a website that might help you answer that http://www.locationworks.com/sunrise/tutor.html

Also, can anyone explain why we have such long sunrises and sunsets in the winter in the far North?

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QUOTE(Wendy_Warnick @ Jun 14 2005, 01:28 AM)
The hardest time for me is between Thanksgiving and early January, when it is typically cold as well as dark much of the time. It feels like we are going into a long dark (and depressing) tunnel. The saving grace is the fact that sunrise and sunset last several hours each and even though it is not light out it is not quite dark either for those several hours. But quite a few people that live in Alaska travel to places like Hawaii or Mexico or even further south at that time of year!

Summertime is wonderful. I love all the light and the only thing that makes me anxious is the mosquitoes. biggrin.gif

I wonder if any of you can figure out and tell me how many hours of daylight you would see if you were at Toolik Field Station on 21 December, the shortest day of the year. How is that different from where you live? Here is a website that might help you answer that http://www.locationworks.com/sunrise/tutor.html

Also, can anyone explain why we have such long sunrises and sunsets in the winter in the far North?

ithink i know why the far North has such long sunsets and sunrises in the witer,
is it because of the worlds axis is tilted either further or closer to the sun?

and im not sure about the other answer, but i think the answer is about  5:53 hrs?
and in comparison with new hampshire is pretty drastic its about 9:08 hrs in concord
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