Darkness in Alaska | Is It Really As Bad As They Say It Is?
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- Winter Solstice special. What does a real day on the shortest day in Alaska actually look like? Some of our thoughts on the short days of Alaska’s winter. Based on the most populous region in Alaska, South Central. Alaska's interior is noticeably shorter. #HowtoAlaska
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Too dark and cold for me. You’ve got to be a real lover of winter to live up there! 😳😳
It’s crazy cause here in Cali we’re so used to the heat that when temperature drops to 50 degrees or 40ish degrees we complain thats too cold but imagine living in a negative degree environment idk how I’d do it😂
Like me😁
It take u a year for ur body to adjust to alaska ud gain 20 to 40 pounds and also alaska consumes the most ice cream of any state
I dont live in Alaska, but where I live in Ontario it can get damn cold. We get alot of the lake effect where I am, so pur winters have nasty windchills sometimes feeling as cold as -45°C to -50°C.
You get used to it😅
Im going to flordia for the winter to a family condo nobody stays in play golf drink beer until spring
I love that people in Alaska are so in touch with the outdoors. We've almost totally lost that in the lower 48. Most people nowadays are so consumed with their cell phones, soccer practice, play dates, etc, etc that they don't even think about something like the Winter Solstice (Or sadly, have a clue what it means).
Ok gramps
You are exactly right! That’s why we live here and learn to enjoy the dark and cold! Pay off too is the summertime!
There are some city people who pay attention to it. :) I host solstice parties and stuff every year and it's one of my favorite things I look forward to. I've always loved watching the sky and the trees and such.
Most people are also consumed with porn or webcams
How can you be in touch with out doors if you freeze to death fter being outside longer than 1 hour
There is no way you could be homeless out there
There's thousands of homeless people here. We fill the stadiums- like 4 of them- with the homelss every night. Plus our normal shelters.
It's true we have a homeless population just like other cities. This past summer the city designated an entire campground to the house less folks. With winter on our heels we have emergency shelter in the Sullivan arena. Then if it gets like below twenty there are additional “cold weather” shelters that open for the night like in churches etc
I thought there will be total pitch darkness for 67 days
Barrow
They aren’t that far north in the north of Alaska yes
Me too
@@randomdudestudios7637 but still anchorage gets About 5 hours of day so imagine it get light at 10:30 to 3:30 that are short days barrow though it’s completely darkness for 67 days but as it goes on it will be light longer but still if it’s light for 1 hour it was be like a sunrise than goes back down imagine Christmas there it will be dark when they get up and open presents they get
Hi I am from Malaysia country from southies Asia..I love explore about world that's why I came here to see this video..I explore world on utube eventhough I never get there!
Awww
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Same girl, same. Watching this video is probably the closest I'll come to Alaska, and this comment is the closest I'll come to Malaysia. That's okay though, one hundred years ago I'd never get to talk to you or watch this video, so, there is that.
I’d love to live in Alaska one day. I was able to visit this year, and had the BEST time as a nature and cold lover. We’re in our 100 days of 100F in Phoenix AZ right now!
Hate phoenix
Same. Hate the heat
Nothing like a winter in Alaska. Gorgeous time of year.
Merry Christmas to your wonderful family.
You've been there during the wintertime?
@@veschil yes I live here
I need to visit Alaska one day with my buddys, getting drunk in the snow or sitting by a fire with hot coffee sounds like good holiday to me👍
Thank you for this. I was trying to explain this phenomenon to my kid, but seeing as we live in the southern US and in a coastal plain, where there’s not even hills, let alone mountains, it was really hard to describe. Here, almost as soon as there’s light in the sky, you can see the sun. So explaining to him that the sky is fairly light but people don’t see the actual sun for several weeks was kind of tricky.
Also, “...leading to the best winter month, which is March.”
That startled me a bit. I always forget that March is technically a winter month. Where I live, we start getting spring weather and flowers blooming by early ot mid February (some winters are so mild that they never stop blooming at all, in fact), so in my mind March is solidly a spring month.
I often forget that seasons where I live are a bit skewed.
We are glad the video was helpful. We have marginal seasons here too... we can expect summer like weather May-August and winter weather from October-March. Our transition seasons only last about a month. We don’t have a long spring or fall. Also, we have longer periods of twilight than lower latitudes. In the summer the night is perpetually twilight and in the winter our twilight lasts for about an hour before and after sunrise and sunset.
Sounds like you live in the same area as me, south Mississippi
@@missgirl745 No, I’m in south Texas along the coast. I always joke that I have to go 500 miles north just to get to The South. XD
if economy could kick up in alaska and more jobs could become available I would really love to live up there sometime I love the cold and the fact that it's not very populated it makes you feel peaceful and close to nature .
My ideal season, weather and mood. I absolutely hate the sun!
Long live the Vampires 😂
weird
@@prathamlandge7219 It's called preference. Lol
@@prathamlandge7219 you wont get it bruh...you a beach boy...🔥if you get this entendre i will respect you...💯
Same. Cold and night is comforting
I love the way this video is made....so calm....so surreal 😍❤
I wish I could move to alaska😔
I am so envious! I’ve never liked daylight or heat and Alaska has been calling to me for years.
You are my twin. Lol. I wish I lived here.
I've been in Alaska for 10 years and I love it.
That's quite beautiful.
That view is incredible
Ima visit there one day😊 ima meet you dude
Sounds like a threat
Cool and wonderful place to live in 👍, thanks for sharing this nice video! ❤ , I hate Summer, I hate Sun, Winter is a blessing, even for 12 months yearly! Hope to visit beautiful Alaska one day. Greetings 🌸
ANOTHER XMASS IS COMING YET STILL SAD SINCE ID GREW UP
Definitely beautiful. My husband and I will be visiting first week of November. What’s the weather/scenery typically like?
Cold, snowy, and dark most of the time…good time to watch for aurora
How was it?!
This is, by far, the best Alaska winter solstice video.
Oh the shortest day is coming in just a few days! So excited. This summer was so rainy and over cast and it snowed in September! So I'm ready for the sun to return and the snow to fade (we've had much more this year than last). I'm so excited to grow things and walk without shoes and sit outside and breath it all in..lol
Last night was a wonderful 22° and so comfortable after ao many weeks of negative temps. 😍 hanging on till the sun returns.
It only gets dark early in the Winter time at 5PM. But, I love it. I wish I was in Alaska, I've visited there & it was beautiful. Still had Snow on the ground, it was in January so, it had snow! But, I'm in North Carolina we get snow here too.
I live in Wisconsin and when the Polar Votex knocks off course we can get down to -22F in the Milwaukee area in winter.
I grew up in Murmansk (69'00) so I know how hard it is not to see the sun, and when it does come out it's so low in the sky. Now living in Oslo (59'59) so very short days and very low sun around solstice, but it really does help to have at least something.
The mountains and trees make such a nice scenery.
Those woods in the background creeps me out.
Thinking about all the possible serial killers
@@hiinsanity you guys been watching too many movies.
@@hiinsanity Come to reality!! Please!! Everyone's generally hospitable in climates and places like this! And who would even have the will to commit such crimes??
That's my dream
Nah it's cool in Alaska really no joke
I am in love. Alaska is so gorgeous. I'm from Texas but I am a lover of the outdoors 😊
From Texas also 😊 checking out the states im going to visit and some live in most likely
@@johnakridge2916 I have family who live in Alaska and they send me awesome photos 🥰 I wish I could move away and live there!
Correct me if I'm wrong only two months of darkness in Alaska right? and after two months is done the rest of the month no darkness/no nighttime is that around summer? I'm kinda thinking that could be on the North side of Alaska, when the sunset comes you guys use it like it's nighttime right?? It's just a question I'm wondering how you guys handle it. One day I will visit Alaska have the experience and better view to see everything over there.
November December and January are pretty short for days. It’s not too bad handling it, you just have to stay active. May June and July you never really see full darkness just twilight. The fall and spring are similar to the rest of the world’s daylight.
Birds??? In the winter in Alaska?? How could that be?
Very interesting and looks like Heaven right now lol
We got about 98 F every day since two Month
Love A L A S K A❤ I'm one of the fortunate to have made Alaska my home away from home the past 4 years. Soothing video
That’s really cool man I’m glad for you. How did you manage to do that? What job/occupation? Housing/Accommodation prices? I’m really interested and been thinking to move there for a while and would love to hear your take on it Andre, thank you :-)
Are you taking visitors? Lucky you been my dream to live there, Tho am from Jamaica.
I really don’t get ppl that lives there. I hate the cold I couldn’t survive lol. My family keeps wanting to go to Alaska and I say nope nope Nooooooo me
It look so cooollllll
^ adding to my previous post. I get extremely depressed in colorado when it gets dark at 430pm or even dim at like 2pm so I cannot imagine
Me too in Chicago. Especially when my Bears lose.
?? For the 6 months of darkness do you guys experience twilight between the normal hours of sunlight or sunset ??
Dawg the 6 months of the sun being below the horizon is only the North Pole, and it’s still not exactly 6 months because the whole entire sun needs to go down to set, and even there, there’s only 81 days or so of Solar Night because the rest of the Fall and winter is either twilight or Daylight with the top of the sun visible, but not the lower half.
@@nabranestwistypuzzler7019 thanks just asking so when 81 days of solar nighy its complete darkness meaning if you dont have a clock you wouldnt know the time im asking this becasue my girls friend believes that you can get twilight/ dawn without the sun .. she beilevex that when its totally darkness you'll still get dawn i told her no .. however needs more proof .. ???? How you know this ??
Went to AK. For a girl we broke up, Alaska still calls to me 30 + years later.
AK. Is a magical place.
She also held some magic
I must return.
How long were you two together for
@@12degreesnowman11 7 years
Maybe she’s there single and pale from no sun lol
I like Snow and Winter locations in my favorite Videogames like The Sonic Series The Spyro Series Reignited Trilogy Spyro Rayman Legend of Zelda and others.
I also like Winter Scary Stories and Creepypasta Winter Stories too.
I came here with pure intentions. Alaska intrigues me and I was researching daylight and complete darkness times. Why would you not just live colorado or something? Peak sunlight and mountains and winter activity. Thanks for the video though! Very informative and enjoyable to watch
Alaska is a different culture than Colorado and also much bigger and more diverse....it’s definitely a different state. The self sufficiency appeals to us.
We are moving from CA to AK. There was a lot of reasons. Income for me was much higher. Colorado pays teachers about 40k and Alaska pays 70k (on average). There is also less regulation and control by the government... a very different culture. The extreme climate can also be very mentally healthy for some. Reminds you of nature and to be more at peace. You focus more on the moment when weather can kill you. Less people.. more space... etc. We also like to be able to harvest our own meat organically salmon / moose etc. So.. just depends on your lifestyle and what you want. There is also no state income tax and in anchorage/fairbanks no sales tax. Some people really like the freedom and independence. :) I hope that helps
The only bad thing I know is that Vampires🧛🏻🧛🏻♂🧛🏻♀ invaded Barrow once.
Al be way in alaska
I live in Australia I'm so jealous I love to live there......
Great body
@@masterofpuppets5072 well thank you very much x
Merry Christmas ⛄Awesome view
how do the women act there are they nicer because of the living condition,,,,this guy from there told me that non of the ladies are stuck up
Here after watching true detective finding Ennius Alaska doesn’t exist, had friends & relatives that moved to Anchorage and Juneau, with the amounts of idiots I come across in my country I get moving to somewhere remote with a smaller population, less population surely means less stupid people right 🤔😏 but if only there’s a place with Alaska’s beauty northern lights and all, but with Hawaii’s, Florida, Arizona’s warmth my old bones need warmth, in youth loved the cold didn’t bother me, now different story, sucks to get old, but still better than the alternative I guess 😏🙄, idk 🤷♂ how people in that Russia town where temp is like -65 on average cope jeez get outdoors much not! don’t think even Canada Goose have a coat for that temp 😜 Alaska great for a cruise trip but my vitamin D levels already low enough living in sun starved UK costing me a fortune in vitamin D pills, 💊 I get more vitamin D from sun visiting my Mom and sister in Toronto for a month every year than I get from 11 months back in UK 🇬🇧 ffs 🙄😤🤦♂🤣
This is amazing such fascinating places in the world 🌍
It’s true...
Check out Tasmania, Australia. Its similiar, but opposite, furtherest point in australia, but south and has opposite seaaons
That's a awesome view u hav from ur porch
So peaceful, I live in the smokies, I would love to live there!
Not a big fan of winter myself… but with that VIEW I may give it a shot
Nice... at least you see the sky. It's been cloudy, rainy and dark for almost 3 weeks in Vienna. I didn't see even beautiful mixture of cloud and blue sky for weeks.
Id love to visit and stay there for 2 months of darkness just to experience that! I usually dont like the cold; I'm much more of a summer fan, but to live through this once would be kinda special.
Wonder how expensive a room would be for 8 weeks??
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I would totally wanna live there. Too bad the possibility of being able to move and work there is basically zero
And i though new York was cold 😐
*No vampires outside unfortunately. Lol 30 Days of Night brought me here*
Love Alaska! Have a blessed Christmas from us here in the banana belt of Anchorage!
Its so Amazing for me.. coz Im from Indonesia... We have 12 hr for day n 12 hr for night... we just have 21°C - 36°C Everytimes.. Khatulistiwa line...
You forgot about twilight
I kinda wanna move to Alaska
no snakes either so I hear... sounds like heaven
ive seen a movie about this darkness. where vampires reign since this area is in total darkness for 67days i forgot the movie name
I bet you're a family of believers in the Lord Jesus Christ! God bless you all and may His light and love keep you bright and warm this winter! 🙏🏻🙌
We love Jesus and seek to serve Him in all areas of our lives
I really wonder how they focus in school all day though
Thank you so much from Arizona.
I'm in Tucson
Better than live in desert without electricity or water and the temperature above 50 degrees all year around , i wish i can live in this place but that's impossible
I would love to experience this , Alison the sunny 24 hours a day...!!
Id love it not as boring as the rest of country i would move there tommrow if i could.
Definitely interesting but I like living here in FL lol
it appears you have a lovely home and it looks so comfortable there ... I am jealous.
Watching 30 days of night got me curious 💀
Do you know electrician by the name of George Morse, a dear friend of mine have not seen him in long time
They would need to pay me 5,000 a week
For work to live there omg
I fed sooo sad bec this is sooo beautiful and I could NEVER really enjoy this except on video bec of the fear that the world is not safe and someone could be lurking out there. Thank you for the visual
Challenge yourself..
I hate winter. I hate the snow.
But for a view of mountains I’d deal with it! Thanks for this informative video!
I couldn't mentally deal with no sun
As someone that lives in Minnesota and have seen very low temps, this looks great to me.
As someone who lives in arkansas, may I ask, how cold does it get in minnesota?
wow December is summer time in Australia
Everyone thinks its easy to just go up to Alaska and live... This isnt an easy life. If youre not prepped for Alaskan life, dont go! you will waste a lot of money. Vacation in the winter to test out life up there.
I love darkness... 67 days of dark? I can live a 100 years of darkness waiting for my light to come and shine my darkness away
Gorgeous view! Thanks for sharing.
It also depends on where in Alaska you are, would depend on the amount of daylight. Anchorage vs Utqiagvik (formally Barrow). for example. I guess it's wouldn't be bad is you don't have to live alone.
You ever spent winter in any of the lower 48? I wonder how it compares to other states. Wish I could spend a week up there in the winter to experience it
Happy shortest day of the year , wait where did it go ? I absolutely love your channel and I'm so happy that I subscribed a while back , Merry Christmas and I hope you have a prosperous new year . Best regards once again from Lloyd way over here in Ontario Canada.
I want to visit Alaska🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
It's beautiful.
Love alaska riding
Watching this terrifies me.......
Watch the summer one to even things out😉 th-cam.com/video/GXS0dztxzBE/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful View from the house. If I happen to visit this city ( not sure, but you didn't mention the city ) can I stay in this home? because the views of the mountains are just gorgeous
Are you Canadian? Your accent is suuuuper Canadian
I totally say about not aboot....so not Canadian ay.
@@HowtoAlaska They dont say aboot though they say abOWt with a deep O sound. Same with "out" and "house" etc
@@melmel472 I've never lived in Canada, it's just a northwest accent, that is by far most common in Alaska
After living in southern Arizona since 1985 I think this would be a nice change
Have you had a lot of views today?
Don't think so no way I'll definitely go crazy I'm a California boy hats off to you Alaskans.
This is nothing. The Arctic coast has nothing but darkness for at least 2 months out of the year. Tanning beds and vitamin D supplements should help.
During the winter, we get around 4-6 hours of sunlight. Alaska also has the highest suicide rate in america, yeah, the dark winter is pretty bad
Wow lhave learn alot
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Bar the window,close the door,Hide! They are coming))
Feeling peacefull there
Honestly I wanna live in Alaska now. I live in Arkansas and the weather is boring and never really that cold enough.