Dramatic skies

[sholio]

Pink-edged clouds in the sky to the north at midnight-thirty.

We had a really gorgeous 360-degree sunset tonight - it's a thing that can happen in the summer, when the sun sets in the north but due to its low angle, you get pink light on the clouds all the way around the sky. (Well, okay, not so much to the south, but all around the rest of the sky.) Here was the view to the east, not a place you normally expect to see a sunset:



The sun will rise again in about 3.5 hours.

Comments

[chelseagirl]

Wow!

Do the short nights affect people's sleep patterns?

[sholio]

Not a whole lot. Most people have blackout curtains or other ways of blocking the light (we cover our bedroom windows with cardboard in the summer). You do get things like more late-evening activity, like you'll see people out jogging or riding their bikes at midnight, and a number of businesses in town have extra-late summer hours.

[booksarelife]

Interesting!!

[lunabee34]

So lovely.

[naye]

Gorgeous! Such fantastic skies.

[umadoshi]

That's so beautiful! *^^*

[st_aurafina]

That is beautiful!

[cornerofmadness]

It's lovely

[gwyn]

Wow!

[sovay]

We had a really gorgeous 360-degree sunset tonight - it's a thing that can happen in the summer, when the sun sets in the north but due to its low angle, you get pink light on the clouds all the way around the sky.

That is a really impressive sunset.

[winter_elf]

Pretty!

I like it light late - but then I'm a night owl. I'm not sure how I would deal with the winter - no light though!

When I went on a bus trip to the UK after college in the summer... and it was LIGHT till past 10pm - and we were like - Awesome! More time to do things... and EVERYTHING closed at like 5pm. Whaaaa! It was so disappointing, every attraction and store, closed. From someone from a big city where hours are often till 9pm, it was so wild and strange and I wished there was more to see and do, but stuck as we were I remember it being frustrating.

[sholio]

Awww man, that does sound frustrating! It's weird how different places are! There is a lot of seasonality to the way Fairbanks operates - lots of businesses are only open between May and September and then close up in the winter, or have much shorter hours. On the bright side, some stuff is much cheaper in the winter (hotel rooms and pretty much anything tourist-related goes way down).

[winter_elf]

See - that makes sense - longer hours during prime tourist months (and longer sunlight), etc. Shorter when no tourists.

but it is very pretty and I've been enjoying your pictures

[rachelmanija]

That sunset is gorgeous!

Also, this line: The sun will rise again in about 3.5 hours.

WTF. Between this and NO REPTILES, I keep being boggled that Alaska is a real place.

[sholio]

YOU ASSUME. Maybe I've made the whole thing up and am actually living in Iowa.

[yalumesse]

So pretty *o*

[krait]

How beautiful! Thank you for sharing the photos; they're lovely. ♥

[timespirt]

Beautiful pics hon.

[holdouttrout]

That is gorgeous! I love the pink and blue combo.