why in alaska is it 6 months in light and 6 months in darkness when in canada is right next to it and it isn't

Question

why is alaska dark for 6 months and light for another 6 but in canada it doesn't happen

Answer 1

IT'S NOT
Why people have this consept the on a certain day someone turns the lights off ???

It's a gradual change the days get shorter in the winter just like here only it gets to the poin of being dark all the time. and gradually turns back to light all the time in the summer.

(Roughly speaking)

3 months sun,

3 months day / night

3 months dark

3months day/night

Answer 2

It depends on how far north or south you are in Alaska or Canada... Northern places in Canada also have dark for 6 months and light for 6. Northern Alasaka goes through the same thing.

Answer 3

The part of Canada which is directly east of Alaska (The Yukon Territories) experience the EXACT SAME amount of daylight or lack thereof as Alaska; so does the other 2 Canadian territories of North West Territories and Nunavet!!

Although there is a little know fact about Canada, if you come to visit me personally you can experience darkness 12 months of the year while you are a prisoner in my basement.... ;)

Answer 4

Whether you have the 24/7 of darkness or light depends on which point of latitude you live. NorthWest Territories, Yukon and Nunavit are all in the same boat as Alaska.

Answer 5

Very little of the state is always light or dark all year. The city of Barrow on the northern edge of the state has a good stretch of each.

For 82 days the sun rises and never sets between May 10th to August 2nd and from November 18th through January 24th the sun never rises above the skyline.

So, they do have 82 days of darkness in winter and 82 days of light in summer.

Answer 6

It's not just alaska.... or all of alaska... It's the northern parts. And everyone above a certain latitude is going to experiance the same phenomenon every winter.

Answer 7

It dosen't matter what Alaska wants to do with its time, But what time does to Alaska nor Canada wastes.

Answer 8

i believe you're thinking of Greenland and not Alaska

my uncle lived in Alaska, but it's never dark 24/7

Answer 9

It does if you get far enough North. Most of the people in Canada live in the South. You start getting up around North Hudson Bay, you get the same thing.

Answer 10

alaska is alot bigger and higher up

and it happens in northern canada too