The wind has been even stronger this week than last, and a few days ago it reached 30 knots. The cold and dark here has started to feel so normal--dare I say even comfortable--that it's kind of fun to step outside into a gust and have it slam the realization into my face: I am at the South freakin' Pole!
Unfortunately for you, nothing at all in this week's snapshot. The wind blowing snow around makes visibility pretty awful.
As a consolation, here's a blurb and pic that one of our NOAA reps just sent out. This taken with an (obviously) much longer-exposure camera, looking back at the station from the NOAA facility about a kilometer away. It's a good reminder that sunrise is on the way (we WILL see the sun again, someday!). The igloo he mentions (which can be seen on the far right of the frame, on the same level as the station) is this mammoth thing constructed by a group of the guys here over the past couple weeks. (They also slept in it a couple of nights ago.) I'll see if I can get some decent photos of it for a future post before they have to tear it down this weekend. Anyway, from NOAA:
"Screen capture from the NOAA webcam during a
lull in the winds this morning. Note the
faint glow of twilight above the station and continuing to the right edge of
the image. Note also the brighter glow
from the illuminated igloo."
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