… so are the minutes of daylight!

Rejoice, Alaskans! Tomorrow there will be nine seconds more daylight in Anchorage. In Fairbanks there will be thirteen more seconds of daylight.

Barrow, you’re out of luck until the end of January.

OK, most of Alaska can rejoice!

It is the winter solstice, and the days are now getting longer.

For people that don’t live in Alaska, it is a little hard to fathom how important this is. My partner and I went out yesterday with our cameras intent on taking some photos. There wasn’t enough light to get good ones. Winters are cold here, but they’d be a lot easier to take if there was more sun, and soon, there will be.

Nine seconds doesn’t seem like a lot. It isn’t. But in a week, we’ll be gaining two minutes a day. In two weeks, it will be over four minutes a day. By March 21, the daily change will be almost seven minutes a day – about forty-seven minutes a week.

We’re headed in the right direction… which is more than I can say about yesterday. Yesterday we lost twenty-six seconds.

Rejoice, Alaskans!