Scientist predicts another hot, dry summer for Alaska

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ewelin · #1 Post by **ewelin** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 10:09 am

I'm curious... what exactly is hot out that way??? like how warm does it get during the summer during the days and nights?

john · #2 Post by **john** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:49 pm

I've seen it 90 above in July/August.

Usually around 70 above is normal for summer.

Were eXtreme

50 below in winter to 70 above in summer...

ewelin · #3 Post by **ewelin** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:23 pm

wow that's a pretty big variance... what about temps at night?

john · #4 Post by **john** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:33 pm

In the summer, what night... Middle of summer we'll have 22 hours daylight.

As of today

Length Of Visible Light: 16h 05m
Length of Day 14h 18m
Tomorrow will be 6m 49s longer.

We'll keep gaining daylight hours until July I think, last years info (to get an idea of our daylight hours

Length Of Visible Light: 24h 00m
Length of Day
21h 43m

Then we start to go down hill and the daylight and darkness hours change :( It's the dark that usually get's to folks more than the cold.

So we do a lot riding "after hours"...

ewelin · #5 Post by **ewelin** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:21 am

wow... completely different world up that way... didn't realize that you had that much sunlight up that way... that's just crazy..... so i guess the high and lows for the day don't vary too much.

john · #6 Post by **john** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:05 pm

Really depends on the time of year. Winter we get

Length Of Visible Light: 6h 33m
Length of Day 3h 42m

sunRise sunSet
Actual Time 7:58 PM UTC 11:41 PM UTC

It can go from zero to 30 below in hours. So maybe not a major fluxuation on any given day, but seasonally were extreme.

Folks say 10 degrees isn't a big change, but you can feel the difference between 20 below and 30 below.