The final week of winter…
October 5th, 2009 Posted in Antarctica
We’re in the final week of winter here at Rothera, well, what’s scheduled to be the final week anyway… the weather may have other ideas! The whole team was busy on a base-wide scrub out today making sure everything’s ship shape for the arrival of the first aircraft which is scheduled to fly south to us on Friday. The 
current weather and forecast for the week is pretty bleak though so we may get a little more time to ourselves. In fact we’ve probably had as much snow in the last week as we’ve had all winter. Well, that’s what you get for trying to clear the runway I guess…
What else has happened? Well, we did 
have a clear afternoon last week, good job too as we were running out of time to take the official 2009 winter team photo. The base got off lightly actually with several photo spots being captured in just 40 minutes although the jury is still out as to whether or not the film shots have developed well enough or if we may have to resort to another session.
Coo, in the next post there’ll probably be a picture of an aircraft! Ummm, either that or more blizzard shots…?
One Response to “The final week of winter…”
By Mum on Oct 8, 2009
So will you get some snail mail when the first plane comes in? That will be fun.
Is that you trudging through the snow in the top photo?
Have you had the coldest, snowiest weather now?
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