Winter solstice in Fairbanks was Dec. 21. By Dec. 25, Fairbanks will have gained 1.25 minutes of daylight off the 3:41:38 minutes of the winter solstice.
Videographer Eric Muehling shot this time-lapse video looking south toward the Alaska Range a couple of days prior to the shortest day:
Here is the video that he shot in 2009 in Fairbanks, different vantage:
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