Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Hope all is well. The weather down here has taken a turn for the worse and it appears it will remain that way for the next 48 hours or so. So, because of that, I cannot get a call out of Antarctica to the States, so for those of you that I said I would try and call, sorry. I will keep trying, but I might not be able to get a call out for some time now.
We got about 4 inches of snow last night. That is actually a lot for down here. Much of Antarctica is actually a desert, and there are places close to here (called the Dry Valleys) where they get virtually no precipitation throughout the year. They are some of the driest places in the world, even drier than the Sahara. The 4 inches of snow was nice and actually masked some of the ugliness that is McMurdo. The downside to the snow is that today the winds really picked up. We had 45 mph winds this morning and all that snow just blows around and reduces visibility, and also creates huge snow drifts. At times this morning visibilities out on the ice were less than 100 feet, and winds about 10 miles away were about 95 mph. When conditions are that bad we cannot make the drive to work, so I actually have a day off (my first since coming down 3 weeks ago). I feel like a kid having a snow day off from school.
Hopefully I can get some pictures of the storm and post them tomorrow, although they will probably just be a lot of white.
Again, Happy Thanksgiving to all!!
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Well it was Thanksgiving for you yesterday, but anyway really wish you were here today @ ours. It wasn't the same without you. I really missed you. I hope you make it back for Christmas. I won't hold my breath, but I will pray for it @ least. Love you!
ReplyDeleteWe really missed you at Thanksgiving. Cass is right...it's just not the same without you.
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