Here are three ways to know you no longer live in Texas, but Alaska:
It’s May 10th at 6:20 am. You take your dogs outside to do their business and get the newspaper and
1. It is fully light outside.
2. There are snow flurries falling from the sky.
3. Your labrador retriever frightens off a moose.
One of these days these details will no longer shock me, but right now, five months in to our adventure, they still do.
Texas Tales and Denali Dreams 
When I lived in Norway and we arrived in August it was light almost all of our waking hours. When we left in November, it was dark most of the day. I believe that Oslo was about the same latitude as Alaska. It is very odd.