![]() ![]() ![]() If that's not enough, here are some other wonderfully, wildly weird facts about the midnight sun, by the numbers:Ĩ7: Days in a row that the sun doesn’t set in Sachs Harbour, our northernmost town.ġ: Day the sun doesn’t set in Fort Good Hope, at the cusp of the Arctic Circle.Ģ2:26: Hours and minutes of light at the 60th Parallel on Summer Solstice.Ģ: Genes in caribou that spare them from needing to sleep on a regular 24-hour cycle. When those sorts of conditions kick in, there's only one solution: Head out to the water to cool down. ![]() Our all-time high temperature happened in Fort Smith on July 18, 1941, when the mercury blazed at 39.4☌ (103☏) – hotter than the all-time high in Hawaii. Temperatures, too, shoot up in the unrelenting light.
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