On January 6th, the sun rose in Inuvik for the first time in a month. It was only up for 45 minutes, and “up” is a pretty generous term to describe it peaking its head briefly above the horizon before disappearing again. Fortunately, day length has increased quickly since then, and it wasn’t long before we could see the entire sun-ball during the day. As of today, the sun is getting a whole 5° of altitude at its meridian.
Every year, the town has a Sunrise Festival to welcome back the sun. This year was scaled down, but still had a fireworks show.
