It is snowing at the Pole! - Usually the Pole is a very dry place. And most days the wind picks up ice crystals so that you have the impression of snow falling. Today we have whiteouts again and it just started snowing for real. A rare occasion for the Pole. The air warmed up. Moisture is coming from the Weddell Sea.
The weather here is dominated by either the cold clear air from the plateau (the East Grid, as they say) or the Wedell Sea. The plateau brings nice cold weather, the sea brings the clouds, whiteouts, and....snow.
We are scheduled to leave Pole tomorrow. We will have to watch the weather closely. The C-130 planes require at least 1km of visibility to land.
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