The weather has warmed in McMurdo the last few days with temperatures generally in the positive single-digits to negative single-digits. There is a good chance that the real cold temperatures for the season are over. The sun is getting progressively higher and higher in the sky every day. McMurdo is now completely in the sun from late morning to late afternoon. We are approaching 12+ hours during the day with sunlight. The nights are turning more and more into long hours of twilight with only a few hours of complete darkness. The flying of the UAVs has been slow as of late with a couple setbacks last week. We will be going out this afternoon to try to get into a routine again with regular flights.
This post was originally motivated to be sent for teachers but I am opening it up to everybody. If you, or your students, have any questions about Antarctica and/or the experiences I am seeing during the field season, please send them to me. Later this week I’ll consolidate the questions that are sent to me and write a post providing answers, or attempts at answers, to the questions.
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