Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.latimes.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Town Begins 65 Days of Darkness Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 06:36:51 EST Message-ID: HEADLINE: Town Begins 65 Days of Darkness Publication Date: Thursday November 19, 1992 BYLINE: When the sun set in the nation's northernmost town Wednesday, residents settled in for their long winter night--65 days to be exact, the National Weather Service reported. The sun set Wednesday for the last time this year at 1:34 p.m. local time, said Chuck Evans of the weather service's Barrow office. The year's last sunrise had occurred just 44 minutes earlier, at 12:50 p.m. The next sunrise will be at 1:26 p.m. Jan. 22. Even though the weather was clear enough to offer spectacular views of the year's last sunrise and sunset, Barrow residents shrugged off the annual event, Evans added. "Generally, it comes in and nobody really pays any attention to it," he said. Barrow is a mostly Inupiat Eskimo community with about 3,200 residents. This article is copyright 1992 The Los Angeles Times Home Edition. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM