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This is due to a time of day called "civil twilight," according to the Weather Channel. Civil twilight refers to the part of the day when the sun is within 6 degrees below the horizon.
Owing to the rain shadow of the coastal mountains, south-central Alaska does not get nearly as much rain as the southeast of Alaska, though it does get more snow with up to 300 inches (7.62 m) at Valdez and much more in the mountains. On average, Anchorage receives 16 inches (410 mm) of precipitation a year, with around 75 inches (1.91 m) of snow.
The weather on any given day is very unpredictable. Some winters feature several feet of snow and cold temperatures, while the summers are typically mild but are cool compared to the contiguous US and interior Alaska. Because of Anchorage's high latitude, summer days are very long and winter daylight hours are very short.
The areas with the lowest sunshine duration annually lie mostly over the polar oceans, as well as parts of northern Europe, southern Alaska, northern Russia, and areas near the Sea of Okhotsk. The cloudiest place in the United States is Cold Bay, Alaska, with an average of 304 days of heavy overcast (covering over 3/4 of the sky). [8]
Get the Alaska local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Nov. 3—Anchorage and the Matanuska Valley largely escaped the effects of freezing rain forecast overnight into Friday, but colder temperatures and a chance of snow are headed for much of ...
If an observer located on either the North Pole or the South Pole were to define a "day" as the time from the maximal elevation of the Sun above the horizon during one period of daylight, until the maximal elevation of the Sun above the horizon of the next period of daylight, then a "polar day" as experienced by such an observer would be one ...
On New Year's Eve, the National Weather Service in Juneau, Alaska, posted images of the Northern Lights it captured on social media. See More: Extreme Geomagnetic Storm Triggers Jaw-dropping ...