Winter solstice is Wednesday, sometime a bit after noon, Alaska ... to sun-starved northerners that the light will return. The sun will soon rise higher in the sky and be above the horizon longer.

The winter solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere ... For example, places farther north, like Alaska, will barely see the sun, while areas farther south, like Florida, will still get a bit ...

After getting 30 minutes of daylight, the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska ... sun is within 6 degrees below the horizon. In Utqiaġvik, civil twilight ranges from roughly 3 hours on the winter solstice ...

Around the winter solstice, the sun seems to rise and set at the same point on the horizon for a few days before it begins to climb higher again, heralding longer days. In the Northern Hemisphere ...