It’s time for round-the-clock daylight on the North Slope

Summer has arrived in Utqiagvik (formerly known as Barrow)  — at least, when it comes to the amount of daylight. The sun rose early Wednesday morning, and will stay above the horizon through early-August. The next sunset on Utqiagvik’s calendar won’t happen until 1:56 a.m. on August 2. That’s more than two-and-a-half months of constant daylight. Utqiagvik will begin losing daylight again the next day (August 3), until the sun sets for the winter in lat