and they will. coming up, spectacular sunrise? is it there? spectacular, you know. but for residents that haven t seen a single sunrise in 66 days, this was cause for dance. the sun return in barrow, alaska. you have a front row seat as this reporting continues on this thursday afternoon.
recording busting heat in australia. temperatures today climbed to almost 116 degrees in adelaide, northwest of melbourne. that broke the record set 80 years ago. in melbourne, it was 105. made things tricky at the australian open. the refs had to stop play to close the roof because the heat was unbearable. making life work where the sun don t shine or hadn t shown for 66 days until now. the place is barrow, alaska. the locals called it utiavic. we ll stick to barrow. population 4,000. location 320 miles above the arctic circle. it s near the top of the world. and it s always cold. in fact, right now it s minus seven degrees in barrow with a windchill factor of minus 27 and it s dark.
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locals there eat whale blubber in the winter and many ride around on snow machines. you can t get out of barrow. there s no road, not one. and it s dark. all winter. that ended for just a bit yesterday. until then, folks have not seen sunlight. no sunrises, no sunset since november 18 last year. the reason, it s so far north. given the earth s tilt, the sun has missed them. during the winter the pole is tilted away. this is the video showing short-lived sunshine in the city yesterday afternoon. the first glimpse of it there since november. the sun came up at 1:04 p.m. and set 71 minutes later. it was a little overcast. probably a lot of folks missed it. a few we know were loving life, a scientist for barrow posted
this picture on twitter with the caption, the sun had decided to join us. we also sought some celebrations. this was the scene in barrow at a college yesterday. folks there said that the sunrise festival, as they called it, involved dance, drumming and singing. a woman there posted this picture on instagram. she wrote today we celebrated our sun running to us with bright colors, cheers, dancing, sunglasses and spf 30 tanning lotion. the low clouds kept it from view, but that didn t dampen our spirits. welcome back, the arctic, our warm friend. the second sunrise of the year happened about 1 1/2 hours from now. comes summertime, the sun will stay up in barrow for 80 days. no complete darkness at all for more than three months.