Alaskan Town Won't See the Sun for Two Months

If you’re a fan of watching the sun rise or set, avoid Utqiagvik, Alaska for the next two months.

The town, formerly known as Barrow with a population of 4,000, is four days into an annual 65-day period of darkness, reports CNN. The term for the phenomenon is polar night, and refers to locations that don’t have a sunset for more than 24 hours.

“This happens every year,” said CNN meteorologist Judson Jones said. “If you live above the Arctic Circle, there will be a day when the sun sets for the rest of winter. The good news? It will return and then during the summer when it won’t set for days.”

The extended lights out sparked the comic book and subsequent movie, 30 Days of Night, in which vampires took advantage of the unrelenting darkness.

Utqiagvik isn’t the only town in Alaska that experiences the polar night. But because of how far north it is, it’s the first. The sun will shine again there on January 23, 2019.