21 June vs 22 December: Longest Day & Shortest Night Explained | Geography by Ashish Antil

The United States’s most northerly city, Utqiagvik, saw its last sunrise for more than two months on Sunday, May 10. Timelapse footage released by the National Weather Service (NWS) shows the sun set at 1:48 am before it rose above the horizon at 2:57 am. The sun won’t set again for 84 days until August 2. The NWS said the weather event is due to Earth’s tilt pointing the northern hemisphere toward the sun, causing daylight hours to rapidly increase across northern Alaska, with some communities