Author Topic: Variety of Gods world (Read 561 times)

Matthew · « **on:** November 12, 2015, 07:35:34 PM »

Amazing how God designed the world. Yesterday I could barely keep the A/C off with 86 degree temperatures (with a heat index of 92) -- basically record heat. But meanwhile in Umiat, AK, they were having temperatures below zero! At the same time of day, same planet.

The "same planet" part is what is hard to believe. If you traveled to the right places on earth, you wouldn't feel any need to visit other planets. North pole, deserts, rainforests, mountains -- so far from our own day-to-day experience they might as well be different worlds.

Not just temperature either -- flora, fauna, LENGTH OF DAY, everything. The only way they're boring is they still just have one white moon. But even then, the northern latitudes have the Aurora Borealis! And like some sci-fi planets, places above the arctic circle experience 24-hour sun and 24-hour darkness.

Here is a place that fascinates me: Umiat, Alaska:
http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/zmw:99789.10.99999?MR=1

Actual Time   10:28 AM AKST   3:16 PM AKST
Civil Twilight   9:02 AM AKST   4:41 PM AKST
Nautical Twilight   7:45 AM AKST   5:58 PM AKST
Astronomical Twilight   6:36 AM AKST   7:07 PM AKST

Length of Visible Light   7h 38m
Length of Day   4h 48m
Tomorrow will be 10m46s shorter.

They are already getting less than 5 hours of sunlight per day, here in the middle of November. And every day you lose a further whopping 10 and a half minutes of sunlight!

Note that they have three hours of "twilight" though, where the sky is not pitch black, but the sun has gone down below the horizon. In Texas this stage lasts about 25 minutes.

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2015, 07:38:06 PM »

I'm used to the variety of weather here in the United States, with the northern states being sometimes 20 or even 30 degrees cooler than Texas. But 70 or 80 degrees cooler? On the same day?

Matthew · « **Reply #2 on:** November 14, 2015, 06:04:53 PM »

I found a new place to be fascinated by: Barrow, AK.

Length of Day: 2h 46m
Tomorrow will be 20m 8s shorter.

Nov. 14, 2015 Rise Set
Actual Time 11:46 AM AKST 2:32 PM AKST

The sun rises at 11:46 AM, and sets at 2:32 in the afternoon! And they lose 20 more minutes of sunlight every day that passes. It's only November 14!

It's on the northern coast of Alaska, but it's actually warmer since it's surrounded by so much water. The temperature doesn't vary much between day and night. Maybe because it's always night there (or close to it).

TKGS · « **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2015, 02:12:39 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

I found a new place to be fascinated by: Barrow, AK.

Even when you're much further south, Alaska is a fascinating place. In Fairbanks, you can find patches of unmelted snow in June. You walk from sunshine into a shadow and you can feel the temperature drop 20 degrees. When I first arrived in Anchorage in February many years ago, I would watch the sun rise around 10:00 a.m. and never rise very high above the horizon before it set around 2:00 p.m. Getting caught in a snow storm in July is also an odd feeling (The one year that happened I was near Delta Junction. The snow didn't stick, but it came down hard enough that I couldn't see more than a few dozen feet away.)