why does alaska have 82 days of day light and 67 of night?

Answer 1

Sounds like a location near Barrow.

I THINK your question is why are they different, why 82 doesn't equal 67? It is because the sun is not a point, it has diameter. So the day starts before the center of the sun comes above the horizon. And the day lasts after the center of the sun has set, it lasts until the uppermost part has set. At high lattitudes, the sun rises and sets at a VERY shallow angle so the effect is amplified. That is also causes our sunsets to be 2-3 hours long at times.

If your question is why continuous light and day? Because in winter, portions of the northern hemisphere above the arctic circle rotate around fully in the shadow of the Earth itself. The further north one is, the longer that period of continuous dark (or continuous sunlight) is.

From the URL below: In Barrow on November 18, the sun dips below the horizon and is not seen again until January 24. Then the amount of possible sunshine each day increases by never less than 9 minutes per day. By May 10th the sunshine has increased to 24 hours per day. The sun remains visible from that time to August 2, when it again sets for 1 hour and 25 minutes. The decrease in hours of sunshine is as rapid as the increase.

So I calculate 84 days of continuous light and 68 of dark for Barrow, but those dates are sensitive to exact location, factoring in refraction, etc.

Note that where almost all Alaskans live (Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, etc), the lighting is extreme, but never continuously sunlit or dark. In Kenai, June 21 is about 19.5 hours of light. Dec 21 is 5.5 hours. (They don't add to 24 because of the sun having diameter, not being a point of light).

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

The universe is around 14 billion years previous and the earth is only around 4.5 billion years previous. Genesis a million:a million says "in the initiating, God created the heavens and the earth". This develop into formerly the 6 introduction days in the international. In financial disaster 2 of Genesis, there is way too plenty time between the introduction of Adam and the introduction of Eve for day 6 to be in ordinary terms 24 hours. night does no longer come formerly morning in a 24 hour day, so the days in financial disaster a million are actually not 24 hour days. era (long sessions of time) may be the perfect interpretation of the days in Genesis.

Answer 3

That does not make sense!

You can't have Days of Night as opposed to days of light!

you mean 67 days of darkness!

you cannot use the word night to describe a day!

Answer 4

Not true. BTW what happened to the other 216 days?
They have 365 days with daylight and 365 days with a night.
Like anywhere, in summer the daylight is long and the nights are short. Opposite in winter.

Answer 5

Because if the Earth's rotation when it's in a certain rotation the Sun's light can not be seen from there which makes it dark all of the time.

Answer 6

Simply because of its latitude. Combine that with the tilt of the earth in relation to the sun, it should become obvious.

Grab a globe and a flashlight.

Answer 7

because its so cold the days roll into the nights without anyone noticeing.

Answer 8

Its to do with the SUN

Answer 9

It's part of the USA.....it has to be bl**dy awkward.

Answer 10

Cos its crazy!!