Barrow is the northernmost city in the United States, and the ninth northernmost city in the world. This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. General area of Point Barrow, Alaska until I can find a better map.
Like other communities on Alaska’s North Slope, Barrow faces direct threats from the threat of oil spills, pollution from industrial development, and climate change.Here are a few pieces of information about life at the northern edge of Alaska.Barrow is the northernmost city in the United States, and the ninth northernmost city in the world.When the sun sets here on Nov. 18 or 19, it doesn’t rise again for 65 days.Barrow is not connected by road to the rest of Alaska, even though it is the economic center of the North Slope Borough.More than 4,000 people live here and survive largely by hunting whales, seals, polar bears, walrus, waterfowl, caribou and catching fish from the Arctic Ocean or nearby rivers and lakes.Archaeological sites in the area indicate the Inupiat lived in this area as far back as 500 AD.Point Barrow, a headland nine miles from town, is where the Chukchi and Beaufort seas meet.Scientists say the Arctic is warming twice as fast at the rest of the planet, and former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta has called Barrow “ground zero for climate-change science.”On average, Barrow’s high temperature is above freezing only 120 days per year, while temperatures are at or below zero degrees 160 days per year.Barrow was the setting for last year’s Hollywood movie “Big Miracle” about an effort to rescue three whales trapped in sea ice.We were unable to process your request. Historical Weather. Temperature instruments lowered to 5 feet and HO6 series hygrothermometer added 75 feet NW of instrument shelter 4/21/77. In Barrow, the summers are very cold; the winters are long, frigid, dry, and windy; and it is overcast year round. The average rainfall (solid line) accumulated over the course of a sliding 31-day period centered on the day in question, with 25th to 75th and 10th to 90th percentile bands. In Utqiaġvik, the age distribution shows 27.7% under the age of 18, 13.3% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 19.4% from 45 to 64, and 3.4% who were 65 years of age or older. Maximum temperature yesterday: 47 °F (at 3:53 am) Minimum temperature yesterday: 38 °F (at 10:53 pm) Average temperature yesterday: 42 °F. Names, locations, and time zones of places and some airports come from the The percentage of time spent at various humidity comfort levels, categorized by dew point. This creates a polar night that lasts until the Sun returns to lightly touch the horizon (due to the refraction and scattering of the atmosphere) by January 22 or January 23. Please also visit Barrow Historical Weather, Weather widget and Weather Charts pages. The average surface water temperature in Barrow is However, because no roads lead in or out of Utqiaġvik, individuals in surrounding communities and towns (such as Street view of Utqiaġvik in July 2008. From bottom to top, the black lines are the previous solar midnight, sunrise, solar noon, sunset, and the next solar midnight. The black line is the percentage chance that a given day is within the growing season.
The station records are corrected for the elevation difference between the station and Barrow according to the Return to Index. Historical or past weather forecast page provides historical weather forecast from 1 st July, 2008 till now in 3 hourly interval. Terrain fairly flat and sodden, with continuous permafrost and numerous thaw lakes, generally windy. While having the tremendous advantages of temporal and spatial completeness, these reconstructions: (1) are based on computer models that may have model-based errors, (2) are coarsely sampled on a 50 km grid and are therefore unable to reconstruct the local variations of many microclimates, and (3) have particular difficulty with the weather in some coastal areas, especially small islands. The precise start and end dates of polar day and night vary from year to year and depend on the precise location and elevation of the observer, and the local topography.
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