As you can see, we're gaining Five and a half minutes of daylight each day. But what is misleading is the 8 hours of daylight. That is really the time between sunrise and sunset. But twilight gets longer and longer as you go north. The picture was taken at 6:36pm on February 7, looking West. Sunset that day was officially at 5:24, so there was still some light in the western sky over an hour later. I remember being in Hawaii with the kids. We were watching the sunset, and I had to point out, that it would be dark in 10 or 15 minutes because that's what happens when you are further south.
DATE Sunrise Sunset Daylight Daylight gained
Feb 5, 2007 9:10 AM 5:18 PM 8h 08m 08s + 5m 26s
Feb 6, 2007 9:07 AM 5:21 PM 8h 13m 36s + 5m 28s
Feb 7, 2007 9:05 AM 5:24 PM 8h 19m 06s + 5m 29s
Feb 8, 2007 9:02 AM 5:26 PM 8h 24m 38s + 5m 31s
Feb 9, 2007 8:59 AM 5:29 PM 8h 30m 11s + 5m 33s
Feb 10, 2007 8:56 AM 5:32 PM 8h 35m 45s + 5m 33s
Of course, if it is cloudy, that long twilight is severely curtailed. Today it won't last nearly so long. Here are a couple of pictures of downtown Anchorage I took dropping something off for a friend who works on the 12th floor.
That's the new Convention Center going up. Boy, this is about as grim a picture of Anchorage as you can get. Not even a trace of the Chugach Mountains in the background.
And on the left you can see northwest out over the Inlet. That's where one the infamous bridges wants to be. Not exaxtly a bridge to nowhere.
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