Monday
Aug122013
The Midnight Sun is gone
Monday, August 12, 2013 at 4:02AM 
I shot this about 3:00 AM which, taking Daylight Savings Time into account, plus Alaska Political Time, would be somewhere between midnight and 1:00 AM on true solar time. Less than two weeks ago the sun would have not have set at all. I am not certain what day the sun set for the first time this summer here in Nuiqsut, but a little bit farther north in Barrow the first sunset since May 10 took place August 2. Now the night will get about 15 minutes longer every day until November 18, when the sun will set until making a brief appearance at solar noon, January 22. Again, that's in Barrow. Probably a day, no more than two, difference here.
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Noticed it getting darker earlier here too. It makes me sad every August when I realize we can't be outside working and playing as long. We eat late in the summer as it's too hot to cook inside and bar-b-q when the grill is finally in the shade. The guys do all the hand watering in the evening. Getting too much rain now so don't have much hand watering...just the window boxes and pots on the patio. The farmers will be picking corn in the dark soon. Their days are longer than the sunlight! I won't miss the flies and mosquitoes!