Watching this video feels like a glimpse into a world beyond time and space. It's incredible to think that there are places where the sun never sets, reminding us of the vast and diverse nature of our planet.
Reminds me of God’s glory, His creation and how wonderfully true His word, the Bible & Jesus Christ (the word incarnated) and the promise of his return. The second coming is gonna make this earth into a new earth where time is no longer a constraint, instead we’ll be operating on eternity. No beginning or end, just being alive in eternal peace and happiness.
As someone who lives in Svalbard Norway, the sun never set here during summertimes. We even discussed about having no official summer time. (there would be no night or day, you can sleep when you want, you can go to the shop at 2-3 am.) So removing the time here is something that has huge support.
I've been fortunate enough to experience a 24 hour day of daylight in Iceland. It was truly fascinating. I've also experienced the Northern lights in Alaska
You don't need to go to far north to experience the midnight sun or long daylight hours, I live just above the arctic circle and we're currently having midnight sun, "down" here it ends around 14th of July. When I lived in southern Norway, we had just long days, it never got dark during the summer, just dusk.
So funny, just as the vid finished I finally started a Bucket List on my phone! This is up there with witnessing a total eclipse, and seeing the Northern Lights :)
Half Greek half Swedish so visiting my grandparents in Sweden during the summer I have lived it. It's strange that you can read a book outside at eleven o'clock or play tennis at twelve, I loved it.
I went to Fairbanks, Alaska in May one year. I remember laying in bed reading with the sun shining in through the window. It kept shining and shining, I was knee deep in a book, and when I finally looked at the time, it was 20 min to midnight. Really played with my sleep schedule for sure
Amazing! Amazing! Living in Uganda all my life, I can't imagine how life is in these areas. Uganda has 12 hour nights and days, no winter, just a rainy season and 3 month dry season. So this video is just unbelievable
Well, I can assure thee it is true. This very weekend we shall lose the last of the nighttime, and it will be day 24 hours. The sun itself will be above the horison from the 21st May and will not set again until about the 21st July. As for the darkness, there won't be any of that, even at midnight until the first week in August.
@@organisten bet the happiest are the children. They do not want to sleep in summer and just want to play, just like mine. That would be a wonderful experience. Once in a lifetime, that is.
I have relatives in Denmark and had visited Copenhagen at 5 yrs old in the month of July or August, I can't remember exactly which month. But at the age of 60, I still can remember the sun setting around 11:00pm and then rising a few hours later. I can remember dining outside at the Tivoli during those late hours at night with the sun still up. I absolutely loved the long days and warm sun. I went again in my 30s but my experience was slightly different because this time I was there in the spring. The weather was raw and chilly like New England where I live.
I live in Finland and make a "pilgrimage" to the midnight sun in Lapland every summer, near the summer solstice. To catch clear skies I must be able to begin the journey at a very short notice, if I do not have a long time to spend there. One should not delay too long, because the best time is quite close to the summer solstice. To get true sunlight at midnight, go for the 69th latitude or beyond. In Finland that means Inari, Kilpisjärvi or Utsjoki, in Norway perhaps Tromsø. If you prefer certain scenery types, introduce yourself to the regions in advance. The night light is often dusky or at least mellow, so you should not have much trouble telling 2 AM apart from 2 PM. At noon the Sun rises to about 43 degrees of elevation, so the noon light will also be mellower than in the south, and you will often see horizontally illuminated sceneries (which I find very beautiful). In winter, on the contrary, you really have to go to Svalbard or the northernmost Greenland, if you want your noon to be properly dark. Otherwise there will be a rather bright dusk on the southern sky at noon. It is not completely impossible, either, to sleep during a bright night, as people can fall asleep even during a daytime car trip.
I visited Barrow, Alaska on June 20th for a few days. Will never forget the Midnight Sun and my room faced the north, so at two in the morning, I saw the sun to the NE. I was out at 12 midnight when the sun was due north.
I live in the southern part of Norway. At summer it is just a couple of hours with darkness in the middle of the night. We are used to it, for us it is strange to travel to a place where there is actually dark at night in summer 😅
Well for some of us Americans. Traveling somewhere where it’s sunlight day and night is strange. How do you all sleep when the sun is beaming on your face?
@@NikkiLachelle Heavy duty curtains :) Personally I have never really been bothered by it, but some are. However, a lot of us experience something called "winter depression". When it turns from light around the clock to dark around the clock as winter approaches, some people feel a noticeable drop in mood and energy levels. For my part it's only in the first 1-2 of months of darkness, by Christmas I'm feeling normal again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder
I live in Oslo, but to be honest, I would have preferred less daylight hours in summer and more daylight hours in winter. Winter is just too dark, and summer is too bright. I don’t need 18 hours of daylight, because it’s not like I’m gonna be up and out and about late into the night. Not to mention that because it’s so far north, it gets cool at night even in summer so I don’t want to be doing things. I’d prefer somewhere where summer is warmer, days are longer in winter and shorter in summer than here
I have seen the midnight sun. I remember my family and I took a trip through western Canada, going pretty far north (in Calgary, AB) in July 1975. We came upon a softball game around 10 PM with bright sunshine outside. It was about 50 degrees then, and I saw these fairly big, burly Canadiens looking totally comfortable in shorts and T-shirts.(we had stopped to ask directions to a nearby motel). We ended up staying the night at this motel. It only got dark for a little bit, about 2 hours. The memory of that, and the trip in general, is something I'll always cherish.
Thank you so much for making this video! This topic is so intriguing to me as I live in the Pacific Northwest and I spend a lot of time in Alaska and I don't know why it's so hard to wrap my head around how this happens. So to physically see the geographic models really helps with that! And these places are absolutely incredible! I always say living in Seattle is like diet Alaska or diet a lot of these places because our winter days are so short but our summer days are so long they feel endless and it feels like you have so much time to just keep going and going and going, the contrast between the two is Stark! Not as extreme but the closest to these polar days and nights you get in the lower 48 😊
I’ve visited and stayed in Barrow, Alaska for work and visited Fairbanks, Alaska with my wife and sons for midnight sun as well and thought it was absolutely beautiful. Traveling when you have the ability is a must in life. Go see places in the world and meet new people, culture, food and more.
I've had dreams of being in places where it is 1am or 4am and the sun is shining bright.. I had these dreams long before I learned there were places where the sun doesn't set...
So here we are used to 12 hour night time and 12 hours day time. Night time for resting and day for working. Can't imagine how I would sleep for months before it coming to day time
One thing you didn't mention is that Antarctica experiences midnight sun and polar night as well. It's just that it's in reverse since Antarctica is in the Southern Hemisphere. The midnight sun would face south and the further south you go, the longer these phenomena exists during the year.
Hi love from India, I have never experienced any of these full day summer or winter. It is quite interesting and thrilling to watch the video. Informative as well, thanks for that
I have lived here in Alaska at 65°N since 1980 after going to my father’s work site at 70°N and yes, here we have 24 hours of bright sunlight from May to July with June being the month where the sun never goes below the horizon. I chose to come here and find it a blessing from the Lord who created it; however, those who come here for other reasons frequently find this place to be a kind of hell on earth; this is due to the fact that they can’t sleep during the summer then during winter find they hate to go outside when temperatures can be as low as -70F. This video does a great job of explaining how wonderful life can be up here. Looking forward to leaving my bones under the dancing aurora lights.
am from kenya the first time i travelled to alaska as i was asleep i saw sunlight on the north direction and i wondered what kind of mystery is on the artic regions then later on saw bright green light on the sky ( aurora lights). I swear i had the hardest time explaining to my fellow kenyans back at home what i really saw in north america but all i can say the place is awesome.☺☺. Not forgeting the polar nights where at a particular the sun rose for an hour then went back into the dark.
Fascinating! It certainly sounds like it would be quite the adjustment for people who have newly moved to these places. Even before the video mentioned, I figured people would use special lighting in the winter months to mimick daylight and probably even blackout curtains for sleeping during the 24 hour summer months.
Some people spend their summers in northern areas and winters in southern areas so they can always be comfortably warm. Perhaps there are other people who split their year between the northern and southern poles so they can always be in daylight.
3:53: Once again, Xplained --- let ME explain something here. NONE of these quirky-daylight-nighttime places are places where you will EVER want to swim unless it's indoors because the weather will be absolutely too cold. It looks enticing, but, as for me, I know better. Even if the water did warm up enough to swim in toward the end of the months-long period of daylight, you take away the sun, as is done here, and that water will become too cold to swim in in just 3 DAYS of nonstop night. In addition, even apart from the abnormal day/night cycles, just the very fact that they exist at all is indicative that you're too far north to have warm summer weather ANYTIME. Canada has a mild version of these problems because of its northern location; Australia because of its southern location. So if you want nice swimming weather, DO NOT MOVE to Canada or Australia or to any place north of Canada or south of Australia because the weather gets rough in those places.
Live at a small fishertown at 70 degree latitude here in Norway, long summers and long winters... But because of the gulfstream the temperatures are not that bad here at the coast of Norway... its colder further away from the coast.
I may be stupid, but I've seen various videos of the sun "rising" in the E (although it is already there), then reaching a peak in the S, then lowering again in the W but not actually setting. What I can't understand it how it gets back to the E again to repeat the cycle. Does it make an ellipse in the sky? In other words, as it appears to move from E to W every day, so how does it get back to the E to start again?
I was told of this as a child. I thought it was my mum who told me. It definitely wasn't somebody else but she denied telling me such a thing. She said I must've dreamt it. however, her, or whoever told me it said that the sun wouldn't rise over a set of countries in succession for many years, not months, and there would be light. I asked where the light source would come from, lamps I said? She said no, it would be natural light. It's really weird. She denied saying any of this. Anyway this video explains this somewhat even if it's not about a set of countries in a row of orbit being shrouded in darkness for many years with natural light coming from some random place outside.
Today I was woken up by the Sun rays on my back. Time - 06:45. It’s Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere right now. As a typical INTP, instead of sleeping some more, I found myself here. 😅 What a beautiful video. 🤞🏼 Definitely earned a new subscriber.
I live in the Arctic at the 64th parallel. During the spring and summer months May, June and July and some of September, it’s light around the clock. The sun is only gone for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. Further north, the sun doesn’t set at all. In winter at my latitude it doesn’t get completely dark, but daylight is very dim and the sun is extremely low on the horizon. We don’t think of these conditions as extreme. They are normal for us, just a part of everyday life. 😊
Omg! Love from Bangalore, India... I cant imagine sun being around for that long. I had been to Chicago and experienced daylight only till 4.00pm.. That doesn't happen here..
Imagine fasting for the Ramadan on these places. That's what happened in the years 2015-2017. Actually in the case of midnight sun, they have to follow the schedule of Türkiye for prayer times and breaking fast times. Even though such places experience daylight 24 hours a day, it's never too hot, as the sun's rays land at a shallow angle, and its energy are spread out. Be glad that the Earth's tilt is 23.5°, not 60°.
I've seen it on webcams on YT in a place called Levi Finland which in the Summer it's daylight at midnight I don't know I would like having 24 hours of sunlight but Here in Scotland in the end of May till the end of July we still have a bit of looming daylight after midnight till the sun rises at 4 AM.
I have experienced both , I have to say , once you do and get use to it. Once back to U.S.A your life may become very different night and day in U.S.A does not effect me the same anymore.
@T Raybern No, tidally locked. Means one side of the planet always faces its sun as it orbits, instead of the planet spinning independently. Over there it's always day on one half and night on the other... also scorching hot or freezing cold respectively.
It's fascinating to imagine living in a place where the day never ends, with 24 hours of continuous sunshine. However, this also means living in complete darkness for several months, which can be challenging. The video explains that the phenomenon occurs due to the Earth's tilt on its axis and the Earth's orbit around the sun. The video mentions various places around the world where the Midnight Sun occurs, such as the northernmost parts of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Alaska. During the Midnight Sun, people can enjoy a lot of outdoor activities and events such as barbecuing, playing golf, hiking, kayaking, or attending summer markets and music festivals. However, getting proper sleep during the Midnight Sun can be challenging. People need to regulate their sleeping patterns; otherwise, it can be difficult to work a nine-to-five job. The video also explains that during the Polar Night, which can last for one to four months in a year, some places experience moderate darkness while others get pitch black. Overall, the video provides an interesting glimpse into the unique phenomenon of the Midnight Sun and how it affects people living in the regions where it occurs. I can say that the Midnight Sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs due to the Earth's position in relation to the sun and the rotation of the Earth on its axis. It's fascinating to observe and study such phenomena as they provide insights into the natural world and help us better understand our planet.
It is a bit fascinating to hear the perspecitve of those who find this strange - this is just the normal winter/summer differences here in Sweden. I live in the far south, so it does get dark in the summer - but I rarely see it, as I am normally asleep then.
Living in completele darkness in a small town where the best part of your day is either going to school or to a grocery store because you’re not rich enough to have a «cozy fireplace» or «cozy lights» is just depressing, especially when u dont like the extreme cold and constant snowstorms and cold winter activities.
I'll end up unalived if there's 24/7 daylight, due to overwork, I'm also the type that once started to "enjoy doing a chore", usually won't stop until almost terribly exhausted.
Can you imagine living in a place where the day never ends? You have 24 hours of sunshine, plenty of time to work, meet friends, work out, do chores and literally anything else you can think of, but there's a flip side to it: there'd also be a time where you'd live in complete darkness. Here's how people survive with months of endless days and nights. Welcome to Xplained. Most of us are used to days with 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime. But at some point, we've all wished for a few more hours to do everything we need to do. In the northernmost parts of the world, life is very different. Daytime can last for 3 to 6 months in a year. That's like 180 days of continuous sunshine! Imagine this: you'd wake up one morning and the sun would rise as usual. You'd go about your day, the sun would hover overhead and just when you think it's setting, the sun would move along the horizon and rise back up again. It would literally be 1:00 AM at night, but it would look like 1:00 PM in the afternoon. Crazy, right? They call it the MIDNIGHT SUN. It takes place in the summer months and it can be the most confusing experience for tourists and people who've come to live there for the first time. So how does this happen? Let's look at the basics first. We know the Earth doesn't stand straight. It's actually tilted 23.5 degrees on its axis. And as it rotates, we experience day and night. Through the year, it also moves around the sun on an orbit. During the part of the year when the Earth is far away from the Sun, countries in the Northern Hemisphere like the US, UK, all of Europe and Asia experience summer. And at the same time, countries in the Southern Hemisphere like Australia, New Zealand and parts of Africa experience winter. But because the Earth is tilted, the places that are closest to the Arctic Circle experience 24 hours of daylight for months on end. So, what are the places that get to enjoy these endless summer days? For starters, the Northern parts of Russia is one of them. In places like Murmansk, the sun never disappears over the Horizon from the end of May to the end of July. Summer in Finland is spectacular. Helsinki in the south sees the sun nearly round the clock during June and July with just a few hours of moderate darkness. It's a similar story in the south of Sweden between the end of May and mid-July. But if you travel north of the Arctic Circle to Lapland in Sweden or Finland, the sun doesn't set at all from May till August. In Iceland, the Midnight Sun is called the POLAR DAY. The nights get brighter from May and in June, you literally never experience any darkness. Most of Norway sees 76 days of Midnight Sun between May and July, but the island of Svalbard in the far north sees daylight from mid-April till the end of August. Meanwhile in the west, Alaska sees the Midnight Sun for 4 months from April to August. Canada's Yukon and Nunavut experiences 24 hours of daylight between June to September and it's an amazing time of year to visit these places and experience this natural phenomenon. And the North Pole itself sees 6 months of daylight. If you're wondering what life is like with endless summer days, well, let's just say it gives people plenty of time to do a lot of fun outdoorsy things. You can barbecue in the middle of the night, play endless rounds of golf, hike, kayak or even go for a bike ride, whenever you want. There are a lot of summer markets and music festivals, and the possibilities are endless. But it's not all fun and games. Getting proper sleep is important, especially if you work a 9:00 to 5:00 job. And unless you learn to regulate your sleeping patterns, life can get very difficult. From September onwards, things start to change. The Earth moves closer to the Sun. The southern hemisphere experiences Summer and the Northern Hemisphere now has winter. The days get shorter and the sun barely rises above the horizon and eventually, the endless days of sunshine turns to almost complete darkness. It's called the POLAR NIGHT and it can last for 1 to 4 months in a year. But how dark it gets during a polar night largely depends on how far north you are. Some places experience moderate darkness where the sky remains inky blue while others can get pitch black. In Iceland, winter days are mostly dark with the exception of 4 to 5 hours of moderate sunlight. In Finland and Sweden's northern territory, the long nights last for nearly 2 months and in villages like Utsjoki, the time between sunrise and sunset is just 48 minutes, but it looks absolutely beautiful with white snow covering everything. And it's a time that Santa Claus Village comes alive in Lapland. The polar night season in Norway begins at the end of November and continues till mid-January. Places like Tromsø that are surrounded by high mountains see a subtle twilight from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. But in Svalbard, the Sun stays at least 6 degrees below the horizon, meaning the darkness is around the clock for 2 and a half months. Alert in Canada is probably the most affected city in the world where the Polar Night can last for 4 months. Life isn't as bad as it sounds in winter, because as with everything, residents in these places have adapted to the endless nights. Outdoor spaces are lit with bright, colorful Christmas lights. People socialize mostly indoors around cozy fireplaces and many workplaces and homes are equipped with special lighting systems that regulate the levels of brightness and color temperature indoors to mimic the natural levels we experience during a normal day. And let's not forget: the Polar Nights bring with it: the beautiful Northern Lights. Have you ever experienced the Midnight Sun or the Polar Nights? Would you wanna live in or visit places that do experience it? Tell us about it in the comments and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to Xplained.
this tells me that there is a mythical tilt angle that would create countries that never don't have sunlight and places oposite that never do but everything between still has day night cycles of varying length.
Hello there thanks 4accompaniy with us and my grattitude for you and very amazing parts of our world.even if written on book it's becoming reverse is true for 12 hrs sun lighting and 12 hrs are with nights.here 24 hrs are becoming sun lighting and very amazing and art of God blesses ur golden country.but I may arise some qtns...how much working hrs are nationally recognized?? I hopefully 24 hrs, Sincerly Feleke keshamo assimeko from africa ethiopia
My fan made Pokémon region, Algid, is set up like this. Three months of day, three months of night. There are 3 months in between day and night. Day to night, nights get longer and longer until full night sets in. Night to day, day gets longer until full day sets in. Algid is a very cold place. During the long night, temperatures drop as low as -100 degrees Celsius. There’s records of temps plunging even lower with the record at 203c. 7:407:40 The glacier expands until it incases the entire region. During this time, no one can get in, or out. Oxygen is produced in massive quantities by Algid Wheezing. They range in size from 1m to 50m. The largest known Algid Wheezing was 75m. These Wheezing breathe in co2 and exhale o2. They take long breaths lasting between 40s to a full 3 minutes. The largest known Wheezing could inhale for as long as 6 minutes. Wheezing’s trainer did try to breed it, but these Wheezing tend to be sterile. It’s the Koffing stage in which breeding happens. Koffing are known to produce large clutches, and they are easy to evolve. As it warms up, the glacier retreats and the Wheezing go into hibernation. Summers warm to 10c. There’s records of a summer where temps hit 35c at one point.
I didn't get to see the polar sun in Greenland while I was there. Twilight going into the dark months was interesting. The polar night is excruciatingly horrid. I already have sleep problems, but this was torture. I didn't have a sunny disposition because there wasn't a sun to be had.
l can only imagine how people over there are managing it. For us here in West Africa Nigeria we wish you the best of live and enjoyment...maybe someday l meant be there too to experience it.
Amazing, thanks for sharing this video, I thought like me, all have 7 hrs day & 7 hrs night, some time day will be longer. This pattern is to get good health by sleeping during night & our body get regulated. It's really astonishing to me. Tankyou.
Went my whole life without knowing this, and so glad I found out. Almost want to visit now more so than other places. And I've never travelled due to Anxiety.
I feel in the world there is a tiny bit more daylight than nighttime In almost all places in the world the sunrise and sunset schedule nails 12 hours of daylight on March 15 in the spring which is still before the spring equinox and September 26 in the fall which is after the fall equinox.
3:52 24 hours of daylight from *_June_* to September??? If it lasts to as late as September, it will start in March or early April, but that can only happen at and very close to the North Pole, not anywhere in Canada - unless they have a different calendar with the summer solstice in late July/early August!
Watching this video feels like a glimpse into a world beyond time and space. It's incredible to think that there are places where the sun never sets, reminding us of the vast and diverse nature of our planet.
Remind me of the Twilight Zone episode “Midnight Sun “
Reminds me of God’s glory, His creation and how wonderfully true His word, the Bible & Jesus Christ (the word incarnated) and the promise of his return.
The second coming is gonna make this earth into a new earth where time is no longer a constraint, instead we’ll be operating on eternity. No beginning or end, just being alive in eternal peace and happiness.
I would like to live their because then when my mom tells me to sleep I could say that its still bright outside.
As someone who lives in Svalbard Norway, the sun never set here during summertimes. We even discussed about having no official summer time. (there would be no night or day, you can sleep when you want, you can go to the shop at 2-3 am.) So removing the time here is something that has huge support.
Circadian rhythms be damned...enjoy the sleep deprived psychosis!
Removing time? WOW im in.
@@codymoe4986 well we have been doing it for many years without any problems, but now we will remove the time aka stop all clocks
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I camped in Svalbad for 18 days then took a ship back to Tromso, hitching south the darkness felt strange😅.
I've been fortunate enough to experience a 24 hour day of daylight in Iceland. It was truly fascinating. I've also experienced the Northern lights in Alaska
I bet both were amazing huh bud
I live here man
no one cares
Did you manage to sleep?
So you work 20 hour everyday? That's terrible
Imagine living there and someone says “We don’t have all day.”.
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This is on my bucket list. I've got to experience this at least once before I depart this plane of existence.
You don't need to go to far north to experience the midnight sun or long daylight hours, I live just above the arctic circle and we're currently having midnight sun, "down" here it ends around 14th of July.
When I lived in southern Norway, we had just long days, it never got dark during the summer, just dusk.
Kom till Sveriges lappland och se på norrskenet och kol svarta dagar
So funny, just as the vid finished I finally started a Bucket List on my phone! This is up there with witnessing a total eclipse, and seeing the Northern Lights :)
@@NostalgiCrazyif you go to Iceland next year you can do all 3 in one trip
@@MaximusTheChosenOne Ooo perfect! Hope I save up for that 😅
We have never ending days in the middle of summer. It is called the "simmer dim". I live in Shetland, Scotland. It is a magical time of year xxx
As South African I wish to visit places where sun does not set.That is a nice experience and I am sure it is more enjoyable to visitors
Half Greek half Swedish so visiting my grandparents in Sweden during the summer I have lived it. It's strange that you can read a book outside at eleven o'clock or play tennis at twelve, I loved it.
I went to Fairbanks, Alaska in May one year.
I remember laying in bed reading with the sun shining in through the window. It kept shining and shining, I was knee deep in a book, and when I finally looked at the time, it was 20 min to midnight. Really played with my sleep schedule for sure
Was it hot?
@sammshroo3494 not for me it wasn't. That year it was actually very pleasant
@@tashalynn29 so even when there's sun it's still mild 😻
@sammshroo3494 pretty much. That time year at night it got cool but during the day it was great!
I admire visiting the place
Amazing! Amazing! Living in Uganda all my life, I can't imagine how life is in these areas. Uganda has 12 hour nights and days, no winter, just a rainy season and 3 month dry season. So this video is just unbelievable
Well, I can assure thee it is true. This very weekend we shall lose the last of the nighttime, and it will be day 24 hours. The sun itself will be above the horison from the 21st May and will not set again until about the 21st July. As for the darkness, there won't be any of that, even at midnight until the first week in August.
I come from northern Norway. Its only amazing for a short while before you get used to it, and eventually annoyed by it ;)
@@GnosticAtheist That's true.
@@GnosticAtheist Speak for thyself. I *love* it. I'm in Lødingen, also the North of Norway.
@@organisten bet the happiest are the children. They do not want to sleep in summer and just want to play, just like mine. That would be a wonderful experience. Once in a lifetime, that is.
I have relatives in Denmark and had visited Copenhagen at 5 yrs old in the month of July or August, I can't remember exactly which month. But at the age of 60, I still can remember the sun setting around 11:00pm and then rising a few hours later. I can remember dining outside at the Tivoli during those late hours at night with the sun still up. I absolutely loved the long days and warm sun. I went again in my 30s but my experience was slightly different because this time I was there in the spring. The weather was raw and chilly like New England where I live.
Where do you live in New England?
new england ? kaha hai
@@PlantsNit's a region in the United states
I live in Finland and make a "pilgrimage" to the midnight sun in Lapland every summer, near the summer solstice. To catch clear skies I must be able to begin the journey at a very short notice, if I do not have a long time to spend there. One should not delay too long, because the best time is quite close to the summer solstice. To get true sunlight at midnight, go for the 69th latitude or beyond. In Finland that means Inari, Kilpisjärvi or Utsjoki, in Norway perhaps Tromsø. If you prefer certain scenery types, introduce yourself to the regions in advance. The night light is often dusky or at least mellow, so you should not have much trouble telling 2 AM apart from 2 PM. At noon the Sun rises to about 43 degrees of elevation, so the noon light will also be mellower than in the south, and you will often see horizontally illuminated sceneries (which I find very beautiful). In winter, on the contrary, you really have to go to Svalbard or the northernmost Greenland, if you want your noon to be properly dark. Otherwise there will be a rather bright dusk on the southern sky at noon. It is not completely impossible, either, to sleep during a bright night, as people can fall asleep even during a daytime car trip.
I visited Barrow, Alaska on June 20th for a few days. Will never forget the Midnight Sun and my room faced the north, so at two in the morning, I saw the sun to the NE. I was out at 12 midnight when the sun was due north.
Endless nights seems like something straight out of a horror movie. Nature is exceedingly beautiful but can also be scary
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I live in the southern part of Norway. At summer it is just a couple of hours with darkness in the middle of the night. We are used to it, for us it is strange to travel to a place where there is actually dark at night in summer 😅
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Well for some of us Americans. Traveling somewhere where it’s sunlight day and night is strange. How do you all sleep when the sun is beaming on your face?
@@NikkiLachelle Heavy duty curtains :) Personally I have never really been bothered by it, but some are.
However, a lot of us experience something called "winter depression". When it turns from light around the clock to dark around the clock as winter approaches, some people feel a noticeable drop in mood and energy levels. For my part it's only in the first 1-2 of months of darkness, by Christmas I'm feeling normal again. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder
I live in Oslo, but to be honest, I would have preferred less daylight hours in summer and more daylight hours in winter. Winter is just too dark, and summer is too bright. I don’t need 18 hours of daylight, because it’s not like I’m gonna be up and out and about late into the night. Not to mention that because it’s so far north, it gets cool at night even in summer so I don’t want to be doing things. I’d prefer somewhere where summer is warmer, days are longer in winter and shorter in summer than here
I have seen the midnight sun. I remember my family and I took a trip through western Canada, going pretty far north (in Calgary, AB) in July 1975. We came upon a softball game around 10 PM with bright sunshine outside. It was about 50 degrees then, and I saw these fairly big, burly Canadiens looking totally comfortable in shorts and T-shirts.(we had stopped to ask directions to a nearby motel). We ended up staying the night at this motel. It only got dark for a little bit, about 2 hours. The memory of that, and the trip in general, is something I'll always cherish.
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the thing that shocked me is even after having Sun everyday for too long they are still cold places 😂
This is one of the most interesting videos I’ve ever watched in RUclips. Thank you for making such a nice video ❤️
yup..i experienced this when i was in Stockholm during summer....i literally could see the sun at 1am!
Thank you so much.
Really astonishing and heartily appreciate you for making this video.
Thank you so much for making this video! This topic is so intriguing to me as I live in the Pacific Northwest and I spend a lot of time in Alaska and I don't know why it's so hard to wrap my head around how this happens. So to physically see the geographic models really helps with that! And these places are absolutely incredible! I always say living in Seattle is like diet Alaska or diet a lot of these places because our winter days are so short but our summer days are so long they feel endless and it feels like you have so much time to just keep going and going and going, the contrast between the two is Stark! Not as extreme but the closest to these polar days and nights you get in the lower 48 😊
i was in Copenhagen and the sun was setting at 11h, and rise around 4 h, i could not sleep and the calme when the dark comes has a meaning to me now!
I’ve visited and stayed in Barrow, Alaska for work and visited Fairbanks, Alaska with my wife and sons for midnight sun as well and thought it was absolutely beautiful. Traveling when you have the ability is a must in life. Go see places in the world and meet new people, culture, food and more.
I remember being so surprised to see the sun still out at 10 p.m. in Paris, France, though it was just starting to set. This was in May 2009.
I experienced this in Capetown too in December though 😅
That's just normal Summer time, lol
@@pro-socialsociopath769 Not where I live it isn't. And I was there in the spring, not the summer.
I'm a night shift worker so I'd adapt easily to both night and day 24 hrs.
same here.
❤ same too dear 💕 always working at night 🤩🌌
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Guy from Tromsø here. I always found it very relateble when Bane goes "You merely adopted the darkness. I was born in it"
Wow......I wonder what a wonderful place you were born to experince what the rest of the world does not experienced.
This is exactly the video I have been looking for, that explains time difference correctly. Thank you!👍
I've had dreams of being in places where it is 1am or 4am and the sun is shining bright.. I had these dreams long before I learned there were places where the sun doesn't set...
I can relate to your experience. I had dreams of Internet in 1980's.
So here we are used to 12 hour night time and 12 hours day time. Night time for resting and day for working. Can't imagine how I would sleep for months before it coming to day time
One thing you didn't mention is that Antarctica experiences midnight sun and polar night as well. It's just that it's in reverse since Antarctica is in the Southern Hemisphere. The midnight sun would face south and the further south you go, the longer these phenomena exists during the year.
I would think they didn't mention it because so few people are affected by it.
How? Can you let me know?
Hi love from India,
I have never experienced any of these full day summer or winter. It is quite interesting and thrilling to watch the video. Informative as well, thanks for that
I was just Iceland last May and we only got about 4 hours of darkness while there. Was super weird the first few days but you do get used to it
Thanks for sharing wonderful video and very useful detailed information congratulations 👌
Thank you for this wonderful episode! It's much educational for me, thank you.
I have lived here in Alaska at 65°N since 1980 after going to my father’s work site at 70°N and yes, here we have 24 hours of bright sunlight from May to July with June being the month where the sun never goes below the horizon. I chose to come here and find it a blessing from the Lord who created it; however, those who come here for other reasons frequently find this place to be a kind of hell on earth; this is due to the fact that they can’t sleep during the summer then during winter find they hate to go outside when temperatures can be as low as -70F. This video does a great job of explaining how wonderful life can be up here. Looking forward to leaving my bones under the dancing aurora lights.
am from kenya the first time i travelled to alaska as i was asleep i saw sunlight on the north direction and i wondered what kind of mystery is on the artic regions then later on saw bright green light on the sky ( aurora lights). I swear i had the hardest time explaining to my fellow kenyans back at home what i really saw in north america but all i can say the place is awesome.☺☺. Not forgeting the polar nights where at a particular the sun rose for an hour then went back into the dark.
I am here in Bungoma, wondering if that is true!
Seriously this the advantage I would love to explore, I never knew something like this existed wow, the best information I have received this year ☺️
Me too. This world is full of wonders
Great video, very informative. I’ve been intrigued about this amazing natural phenomenon.
I could handle the long days but not months without the sun. I love night time but I need sun!
Just wondering, what happens to plants during months of polar nights? How do they survive without sunlight?
Its winter time so plants are hibernating. When spring comes the nature wakes up from sleep.
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Thanks for this video, this is something I loved to watch
in africas capital kenya we experience normal 12hour light and 12 hour darkness throughout the year, we only have 2 seasons
Fascinating! It certainly sounds like it would be quite the adjustment for people who have newly moved to these places. Even before the video mentioned, I figured people would use special lighting in the winter months to mimick daylight and probably even blackout curtains for sleeping during the 24 hour summer months.
Flat earthers : That earth animation is not correct.
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It makes total sense on flat earth
Some people spend their summers in northern areas and winters in southern areas so they can always be comfortably warm. Perhaps there are other people who split their year between the northern and southern poles so they can always be in daylight.
If some of this happened in Africa even once, people would know the world has come to an end
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 As a Nigerian, I never knew things like this. This world is full of wonders
@@ugwucyril9681 That's true. Twas my first time too to hear about it.
Exactly.
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3:53: Once again, Xplained --- let ME explain something here. NONE of these quirky-daylight-nighttime places are places where you will EVER want to swim unless it's indoors because the weather will be absolutely too cold. It looks enticing, but, as for me, I know better. Even if the water did warm up enough to swim in toward the end of the months-long period of daylight, you take away the sun, as is done here, and that water will become too cold to swim in in just 3 DAYS of nonstop night. In addition, even apart from the abnormal day/night cycles, just the very fact that they exist at all is indicative that you're too far north to have warm summer weather ANYTIME. Canada has a mild version of these problems because of its northern location; Australia because of its southern location. So if you want nice swimming weather, DO NOT MOVE to Canada or Australia or to any place north of Canada or south of Australia because the weather gets rough in those places.
Live at a small fishertown at 70 degree latitude here in Norway, long summers and long winters... But because of the gulfstream the temperatures are not that bad here at the coast of Norway... its colder further away from the coast.
I may be stupid, but I've seen various videos of the sun "rising" in the E (although it is already there), then reaching a peak in the S, then lowering again in the W but not actually setting.
What I can't understand it how it gets back to the E again to repeat the cycle. Does it make an ellipse in the sky?
In other words, as it appears to move from E to W every day, so how does it get back to the E to start again?
I'm from southern California our longest days are from June 20th to mid July sunset is a few minutes after 8pm and sunrise at 5:40am/5:45 am
I was told of this as a child. I thought it was my mum who told me. It definitely wasn't somebody else but she denied telling me such a thing. She said I must've dreamt it. however, her, or whoever told me it said that the sun wouldn't rise over a set of countries in succession for many years, not months, and there would be light. I asked where the light source would come from, lamps I said? She said no, it would be natural light. It's really weird. She denied saying any of this. Anyway this video explains this somewhat even if it's not about a set of countries in a row of orbit being shrouded in darkness for many years with natural light coming from some random place outside.
We see sunlight for ~ 6Hr's and 40min before Christmas Eve. That is our shortest day and longest night.
I don't think I could handle months long day and night but I wouldn't mind visiting to see what its like.
I live in New Zealand so I’ll never get to experience anything like this but how fascinating would it be to experience it
Loved this video. I read about it in a book when I was small.
Today I was woken up by the Sun rays on my back. Time - 06:45. It’s Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere right now. As a typical INTP, instead of sleeping some more, I found myself here. 😅
What a beautiful video. 🤞🏼
Definitely earned a new subscriber.
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Wow 😳😳😳 amazing I want to Xperience this!!!!!
I live in the Arctic at the 64th parallel. During the spring and summer months May, June and July and some of September, it’s light around the clock. The sun is only gone for a couple of hours in the middle of the night. Further north, the sun doesn’t set at all.
In winter at my latitude it doesn’t get completely dark, but daylight is very dim and the sun is extremely low on the horizon.
We don’t think of these conditions as extreme. They are normal for us, just a part of everyday life. 😊
Omg! Love from Bangalore, India... I cant imagine sun being around for that long. I had been to Chicago and experienced daylight only till 4.00pm.. That doesn't happen here..
Imagine fasting for the Ramadan on these places. That's what happened in the years 2015-2017.
Actually in the case of midnight sun, they have to follow the schedule of Türkiye for prayer times and breaking fast times.
Even though such places experience daylight 24 hours a day, it's never too hot, as the sun's rays land at a shallow angle, and its energy are spread out. Be glad that the Earth's tilt is 23.5°, not 60°.
As a filipino that would be full of endless of funs
I've seen it on webcams on YT in a place called Levi Finland which in the Summer it's daylight at midnight I don't know I would like having 24 hours of sunlight but Here in Scotland in the end of May till the end of July we still have a bit of looming daylight after midnight till the sun rises at 4 AM.
Seems like a nightmare, whilst there is no night so i wonder if you can even have nightmares there.
I was on a cruise to Alaska and I remember when we left Seattle, the sun was up at 3am
Thank you so much.
You explained very well.
I have experienced both , I have to say , once you do and get use to it. Once back to U.S.A your life may become very different night and day in U.S.A does not effect me the same anymore.
In other words a good simulation of living on a tidally locked planet.
@T Raybern No, tidally locked. Means one side of the planet always faces its sun as it orbits, instead of the planet spinning independently. Over there it's always day on one half and night on the other... also scorching hot or freezing cold respectively.
As someone from south east asia I really want to experience any of these someday 😊
It's fascinating to imagine living in a place where the day never ends, with 24 hours of continuous sunshine. However, this also means living in complete darkness for several months, which can be challenging. The video explains that the phenomenon occurs due to the Earth's tilt on its axis and the Earth's orbit around the sun.
The video mentions various places around the world where the Midnight Sun occurs, such as the northernmost parts of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Alaska. During the Midnight Sun, people can enjoy a lot of outdoor activities and events such as barbecuing, playing golf, hiking, kayaking, or attending summer markets and music festivals.
However, getting proper sleep during the Midnight Sun can be challenging. People need to regulate their sleeping patterns; otherwise, it can be difficult to work a nine-to-five job. The video also explains that during the Polar Night, which can last for one to four months in a year, some places experience moderate darkness while others get pitch black.
Overall, the video provides an interesting glimpse into the unique phenomenon of the Midnight Sun and how it affects people living in the regions where it occurs. I can say that the Midnight Sun is a natural phenomenon that occurs due to the Earth's position in relation to the sun and the rotation of the Earth on its axis. It's fascinating to observe and study such phenomena as they provide insights into the natural world and help us better understand our planet.
Thank you for clarifying the video in writing. As people we understand things differently.
I'd love to live in places with polar nights🌌
Same to me
It is a bit fascinating to hear the perspecitve of those who find this strange - this is just the normal winter/summer differences here in Sweden. I live in the far south, so it does get dark in the summer - but I rarely see it, as I am normally asleep then.
Living in completele darkness in a small town where the best part of your day is either going to school or to a grocery store because you’re not rich enough to have a «cozy fireplace» or «cozy lights» is just depressing, especially when u dont like the extreme cold and constant snowstorms and cold winter activities.
I'll end up unalived if there's 24/7 daylight, due to overwork, I'm also the type that once started to "enjoy doing a chore", usually won't stop until almost terribly exhausted.
i dreamed to visit this place or work there.. if only i have a chance... this is might be the best experience in my life
Thank you for your informative video. I enjoyed it with my class of 9 and 10 year old students.
Can you imagine living in a place where the day never ends? You have 24 hours of sunshine, plenty of time to work, meet friends, work out, do chores and literally anything else you can think of, but there's a flip side to it: there'd also be a time where you'd live in complete darkness. Here's how people survive with months of endless days and nights. Welcome to Xplained.
Most of us are used to days with 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime. But at some point, we've all wished for a few more hours to do everything we need to do. In the northernmost parts of the world, life is very different. Daytime can last for 3 to 6 months in a year. That's like 180 days of continuous sunshine! Imagine this: you'd wake up one morning and the sun would rise as usual. You'd go about your day, the sun would hover overhead and just when you think it's setting, the sun would move along the horizon and rise back up again. It would literally be 1:00 AM at night, but it would look like 1:00 PM in the afternoon. Crazy, right? They call it the MIDNIGHT SUN. It takes place in the summer months and it can be the most confusing experience for tourists and people who've come to live there for the first time. So how does this happen? Let's look at the basics first.
We know the Earth doesn't stand straight. It's actually tilted 23.5 degrees on its axis. And as it rotates, we experience day and night. Through the year, it also moves around the sun on an orbit. During the part of the year when the Earth is far away from the Sun, countries in the Northern Hemisphere like the US, UK, all of Europe and Asia experience summer. And at the same time, countries in the Southern Hemisphere like Australia, New Zealand and parts of Africa experience winter. But because the Earth is tilted, the places that are closest to the Arctic Circle experience 24 hours of daylight for months on end. So, what are the places that get to enjoy these endless summer days?
For starters, the Northern parts of Russia is one of them. In places like Murmansk, the sun never disappears over the Horizon from the end of May to the end of July. Summer in Finland is spectacular. Helsinki in the south sees the sun nearly round the clock during June and July with just a few hours of moderate darkness. It's a similar story in the south of Sweden between the end of May and mid-July. But if you travel north of the Arctic Circle to Lapland in Sweden or Finland, the sun doesn't set at all from May till August. In Iceland, the Midnight Sun is called the POLAR DAY. The nights get brighter from May and in June, you literally never experience any darkness. Most of Norway sees 76 days of Midnight Sun between May and July, but the island of Svalbard in the far north sees daylight from mid-April till the end of August. Meanwhile in the west, Alaska sees the Midnight Sun for 4 months from April to August. Canada's Yukon and Nunavut experiences 24 hours of daylight between June to September and it's an amazing time of year to visit these places and experience this natural phenomenon. And the North Pole itself sees 6 months of daylight.
If you're wondering what life is like with endless summer days, well, let's just say it gives people plenty of time to do a lot of fun outdoorsy things. You can barbecue in the middle of the night, play endless rounds of golf, hike, kayak or even go for a bike ride, whenever you want. There are a lot of summer markets and music festivals, and the possibilities are endless. But it's not all fun and games. Getting proper sleep is important, especially if you work a 9:00 to 5:00 job. And unless you learn to regulate your sleeping patterns, life can get very difficult. From September onwards, things start to change. The Earth moves closer to the Sun. The southern hemisphere experiences Summer and the Northern Hemisphere now has winter. The days get shorter and the sun barely rises above the horizon and eventually, the endless days of sunshine turns to almost complete darkness.
It's called the POLAR NIGHT and it can last for 1 to 4 months in a year. But how dark it gets during a polar night largely depends on how far north you are. Some places experience moderate darkness where the sky remains inky blue while others can get pitch black. In Iceland, winter days are mostly dark with the exception of 4 to 5 hours of moderate sunlight. In Finland and Sweden's northern territory, the long nights last for nearly 2 months and in villages like Utsjoki, the time between sunrise and sunset is just 48 minutes, but it looks absolutely beautiful with white snow covering everything. And it's a time that Santa Claus Village comes alive in Lapland. The polar night season in Norway begins at the end of November and continues till mid-January. Places like Tromsø that are surrounded by high mountains see a subtle twilight from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. But in Svalbard, the Sun stays at least 6 degrees below the horizon, meaning the darkness is around the clock for 2 and a half months. Alert in Canada is probably the most affected city in the world where the Polar Night can last for 4 months.
Life isn't as bad as it sounds in winter, because as with everything, residents in these places have adapted to the endless nights. Outdoor spaces are lit with bright, colorful Christmas lights. People socialize mostly indoors around cozy fireplaces and many workplaces and homes are equipped with special lighting systems that regulate the levels of brightness and color temperature indoors to mimic the natural levels we experience during a normal day. And let's not forget: the Polar Nights bring with it: the beautiful Northern Lights. Have you ever experienced the Midnight Sun or the Polar Nights? Would you wanna live in or visit places that do experience it? Tell us about it in the comments and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to Xplained.
this tells me that there is a mythical tilt angle that would create countries that never don't have sunlight and places oposite that never do but everything between still has day night cycles of varying length.
Hello there thanks 4accompaniy with us and my grattitude for you and very amazing parts of our world.even if written on book it's becoming reverse is true for 12 hrs sun lighting and 12 hrs are with nights.here 24 hrs are becoming sun lighting and very amazing and art of God blesses ur golden country.but I may arise some qtns...how much working hrs are nationally recognized?? I hopefully 24 hrs,
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Feleke keshamo assimeko from africa ethiopia
Does anyone know how do they video with some amazing editing. which application/sortware are used to make these videos
Does this 6 months of sunlight and 6 months of darkness also apply to the country of Patagonia?
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My fan made Pokémon region, Algid, is set up like this. Three months of day, three months of night. There are 3 months in between day and night. Day to night, nights get longer and longer until full night sets in. Night to day, day gets longer until full day sets in.
Algid is a very cold place. During the long night, temperatures drop as low as -100 degrees Celsius. There’s records of temps plunging even lower with the record at 203c. 7:40 7:40 The glacier expands until it incases the entire region. During this time, no one can get in, or out.
Oxygen is produced in massive quantities by Algid Wheezing. They range in size from 1m to 50m. The largest known Algid Wheezing was 75m. These Wheezing breathe in co2 and exhale o2. They take long breaths lasting between 40s to a full 3 minutes. The largest known Wheezing could inhale for as long as 6 minutes. Wheezing’s trainer did try to breed it, but these Wheezing tend to be sterile. It’s the Koffing stage in which breeding happens. Koffing are known to produce large clutches, and they are easy to evolve.
As it warms up, the glacier retreats and the Wheezing go into hibernation. Summers warm to 10c. There’s records of a summer where temps hit 35c at one point.
So interesting...i live in Malaysia. Never experienced midnight sun.
When I start to make money and travel, I will experience all of these places. In Jesus Name: Amen 🙏🏾
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I didn't get to see the polar sun in Greenland while I was there. Twilight going into the dark months was interesting. The polar night is excruciatingly horrid. I already have sleep problems, but this was torture. I didn't have a sunny disposition because there wasn't a sun to be had.
4:25 no need to get scared of ghost as often as on other places after watching horror movies
l can only imagine how people over there are managing it. For us here in West Africa Nigeria we wish you the best of live and enjoyment...maybe someday l meant be there too to experience it.
amazing video and imcomprehendible in Africa, yet a reality based on Geographical facts Thanks
Have never seen anything like this!Interesting,From KENYA.
No mention of the southern hemisphere! What about southern Argentina, Chile or New Zealand?
Blessed to experience midnight sun in Northern Norway, would like to go back there.
Its amezing, I want to experience this in Norway, Iceland. 😊
Amazing, thanks for sharing this video, I thought like me, all have 7 hrs day & 7 hrs night, some time day will be longer. This pattern is to get good health by sleeping during night & our body get regulated. It's really astonishing to me. Tankyou.
Nice, Just one thing, You haven't Xplaned why earth's rotation is shown in reverse, Earth rotation is always in an Easterly Direction, Please explain!
Vi sure wanna visit the polar night. It's beautiful nature is amazing. My wish to travel the world 🌍🙏
Well explained :-) ❤ thank you 🙏
In the UK Us and Norway Basically have the same sunset hours in the months of September and October
Went my whole life without knowing this, and so glad I found out. Almost want to visit now more so than other places. And I've never travelled due to Anxiety.
I feel in the world there is a tiny bit more daylight than nighttime
In almost all places in the world the sunrise and sunset schedule nails 12 hours of daylight on March 15 in the spring which is still before the spring equinox and September 26 in the fall which is after the fall equinox.
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24 hours of daylight from *_June_* to September???
If it lasts to as late as September, it will start in March or early April, but that can only happen at and very close to the North Pole, not anywhere in Canada - unless they have a different calendar with the summer solstice in late July/early August!
This is really incredibly interesting! Whoa 😲 I’ve got something to add to this but it’ll have to wait for 1-2 mins.