Living Alaska, Predicting Sunlight in the Weather

Weather Reports in Alaska

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Sunlight Prediction.

Light from the sun is an essential element to life. But is the amount of light part of the weather report in your state? In Alaska, the amount of light per day is an integral part of the weather report. In Anchorage, Alaska they are approaching Nine hours a day. Every day they gain 6 more minutes of light. That might not seem like much but let us put it a different way.

The Speed of Light in Alaska

Photograph by Author, Noon Day Sun in Alaska Winter

Every ten days we gain another hour of light. In the past month, (thirty days ago) we had six hours of light per day. In that perspective you can see why Light from the sun is high on the list of News in the Weather. It has been the same for hundreds of thousands of years though. But we still predict it in the Weather.

Alaska Weather Reports

Photograph by Author, Gulf of Alaska

But to the Credit of the Alaskan News and more specifically the Weather Report, they never get this…