Does Alaska have 6mos day and 6mos night there?

Answer 1

Not the way some people think it is. In winter, days get shorter and shorter until they stop, and it stays pretty much dark for a month, right around Christmas. As Spring starts. days get longer until around mid June, it stays daylight all day. The further North you go, the longer the periods of dark/light.

Answer 2

No. In the summer days get longer and longer. If you are very far North, at midsummer the sun does not set- it circles the horizon for days or weeks. In winter, days get shorter and shorter until in mid-winter (in the far North) the sun does not rise. But it is NOT one long day and one long night. This occurs only at the poles.

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yea Alaska has 6 months of dark and 6 months of light<< This is utterly incorrect. Alaska has day and night cycles like anywhere else, just longer in summer and winter. In the dead of winter the sun will be up for 4-6 hours, in the middle of summer it will be down for 4-6 hours. Spring and fall we have normal daylight hours.
Most people, living around the mid-belt of the globe, have their pace and pattern of life governed by a changeless rhythm of the rising and setting sun. But north of the Arctic Circle?as well as in Antarctica down under?this rhythm is broken during the year.

Since the earth is tilted on its axis, for six months the North Pole faces toward the sun, in eternal daylight, while the South Pole has a half-year-long night. So, if you lived on the North Pole the year around, you would have a six-month day, from March 21 to September 23, followed, unfortunately, by a six-month night of icy cold and ferocious blizzards. The farther south one lives from the North Pole, the shorter the midnight sun period will be. Coming to the Arctic Circle, located some 1,630 miles (2,600 km) from the North Pole, there is one day a year when the sun does not set all night, and, likewise, in the winter, one day when it does not rise..

Answer 3

It is not 6 and 6 to be taken completely literally. In Anchorage, we have roughly 9 months of winter. When we begin to gain daylight again in the spring, the earth begins to move into a position in which Alaska is pointing toward the sun. As the earth rotates on its axis, and because of the position of Alaska at that time, the night time only reaches a dusk like lighting. In the interior, Fairbanks, there is a point in the summer that you can watch the sun set and rise without waiting or changing direction. Which is weird, because if the sun rises in the east and sets in the west and you don't have to turn around to see it rise. I often describe it, after 20 years in Anchorage and a previous 4 in Fairbanks when I was a child, as that dusk like feel in the summer, and the cloud cover and short time that the sun is up in the winter makes it feel very dark all the time. Now in the winter it is literally dark. I can remember in the middle of winter the sun rising at 10 and setting at 3pm. It is nuts. And that pitch black night sky is something you won't experience in Anchorage or Fairbanks, the only 2 I can speak on, in the summer. When we lived in Fairbanks my father played softball and during the summer there was a midnight sun game that they began at midnight. It was pretty cool! =)