It might be hard to imagine living in darkness for several months at a time, but that's the reality for locations north of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles. During these times, it's referred to as a ...

UTQIAGVIK, Alaska - Utqiagvik, Alaska has seen its last sunrise this year; America's northernmost settlement will not see the Sun again until Jan. 22, 2026, as Polar Night begins in the Arctic Circle.

Think you’ve had a long day? Imagine living in Utqiagvik, Alaska. After rising on Saturday, the sun there will shine for 84 days, 11 hours, 4 minutes without setting. Meteorologists and astronomers ...

For those who hate seeing the sun set before 6 p.m., it could always be worse. The sun set for the final time in 2025 in Utqiagvik, Alaska, yesterday. The northernmost city in the United States will ...

The polar night jet, the high-altitude winter wind that circles the Arctic, acts like a flywheel for the cold season in the Northern Hemisphere. As climate change erodes the temperature contrast that ...

The polar night regions are Chukotka, the Krasnoyarsk, Yakutia, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Nenets and Yamalo-Nenets, and Komi MOSCOW, November 10. /TASS Correspondent Viktoria Melnikova/. People living in ...

This segment originally appeared in today's edition of the Morning Brief newsletter. Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. It might be hard to imagine ...

On Tuesday, the sun rose in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, for the first time since November—but only for a whopping 48 minutes before it set again. The sun appeared around 1:15 p.m. and disappeared just after 2 ...