Alaska

Was watching this documentary on National Geographic, Alaska State Troopers. It's a documentary on the policemen and their work in Alaska. In one of the episode, the sun was setting but it was 12 midnight! so out of curiosity, i googled on Alaska.

http://www.alaska.com/about/weather/

A common notion about Alaska is that the whole state goes dark in the winter and has endless sunlight in the summer. That's not quite the case.

Barrow, at the very top of the state, has a two-month winter period in which the sun doesn't rise. But that's the extreme, and winter's long nights get shorter the farther south you go. South of the Arctic Circle, every place has sunlight at least part of the day.

In the summer, all of Arctic Alaska gets 24-hour sunlight for at least one day at the solstice. Barrow has continuous daylight for 85 days. South of the circle, every town has a night every day, even if it's quite brief.

Long dawns and dusks can make the day appear longer than it actually is. Even as far south as Anchorage, it's possible to read a newspaper outdoors at 2 a.m. -- two hours after sunset -- in the days around the summer solstice.

The highest temperature is 3 degree Celsius, and the lowest temperature is -29 degree Celsius.

It is an interesting place.