Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Watch the weather with us

Here's a link to a weather station that sit's at the end of the runway at Patriot Hills in Antarctica. The runway is blue ice, so it's a bit slippery, and it has no instrument approach like a typical airport runway would, so we can only land when the pilots can see. We are looking for winds of less than 15 knots, and max gusts less than 20 knots. We have been in a particularly long stretch of bad weather, and there hasn't been flyable weather since we have been here. While it is totally normal to have some delays in flying to and from Antarctica, this has been an exceptionally long delay.

You can watch the weather yourself at http://thistle.org/wx7/index.shtml

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