Thunderstorms average one or two a year and generally are the result of frontal activity. The considerable amount of cloudiness prevalent over this area results in a corresponding low percentage of possible sunshine. Unfortunately, visions of the Northern Lights are a rarity in the winter. North lies the North Pole, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Siberia and the rest of Alaska. Rainfall averages 110 per year.
Rain occurs vertically, horizontally, diagonally, and from the ground up.
In 1887 Annette Islands became the permanent home of over 800 Tsimshian Indians. A Missionary, William Duncan lead them from their Metlakatla British Columbia home to an abandoned summer camp of the Tlingits. Before they left for Alaska, Duncan had visited Washington D.C., where he was told that he and his followers would be granted political, economic, educational and religious freedom in Alaska. In 1891 Congress declared Annette Islands an Indian Reserve for the Tsimshians and all other Alaskan natives who wished to join them. The new community was designed upon that of a model Christian community.