What happens??? People who live in the mountains answer this.?

Question

I live in the prairie and so the land is flat, obviously, but when the sun goes down, and psses below the horizon, it starts to get dark. DUH!!! When the sun goes behind the mountains, does it start getting dark sooner or does it stay light until it passes the horizon behind the mountains?

Answer 1

thats a great question. In the summer twilight lasts a long time with the mountain tops outline in light. In late winter sometimes you can actually see sunbeams come up from behind the mountains

Answer 2

It doesn't really get dark sooner, unless you live down in a narrow canyon or something -- in which case it's shady a lot, and the light is indirect, but the days are just as long. The sunset happens a little sooner, though, and the "dusk" is longer because there is a longer period of indirect light after the sun goes behind the mountains.

Answer 3

There are places in the mountains, "up the hollar" for example, where the Sun only "shines" from about 10 AM till 2 PM. The rest of the time it is dark, all most dark, or nearly dark.

Answer 4

It gets darker where I am. That may also be because of all the trees on the mountains, it may also have something to do with the fact that while I live on a mountain, there are many more taller ones around me, I live in a sort of valley...

Answer 5

I live in the Pennsylvania mountains. It starts getting dark first in the valleys and stays lighter longer on the mountain tops, where I live.

Answer 6

I don't live in the mountains, but, if you put a lamp behind the bedstand, it's going to dim the room because you are blocking some of the light, but it's still going to shine up from behind and out the sides of the bedstand.

Answer 7

The mountains turn golden, and seem to stay that way for hours.
But I wouldn't say it gets darker sooner. I used to live in PA.

Answer 8

hmmmm, I guess it stays light a little longer, I don't think there is any way to prove if it does though.