Our friend Kas, a Baltimore girl who ended up in Alaska by way of Hawaii (go figure), reports that they're gaining about 30 seconds of daylight a day now.
"Yesterday we had 5 hours 46 minutes and 32 seconds of daylight much of it
filtered through clouds that provided a light dusting of snow all day," she wrote this morning.
Think about it. By the third week in March, they'll be up to 12 hours of daylight, and the days will get longer from there. If you live in the middle latitudes and have never been in the upper latitudes in summer or winter, you can't imagine how dramatic the changes in light can be. In early December in Britain, dawn comes around 8 a.m. and it's pitch dark by 4 p.m. And in summer in Norway, we went from a couple of hours of "twilight" around 4 a.m. in July to pitch dark by 10 in mid-August.
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