Well, I've been here almost one week and nothing exciting has happened too much weather wise. That was until when I saw the numerical models from 1200Z 30 October. It looks like that I'll be experiencing the first major system since I got here. For right now, we'll have modest warm air advection that will bring some clouds on 1200Z 2 November. This trend will continue and there will be a good chance of precipitation for 0000-1200Z for 3 and 4 November.
Towards the end of the run, the weather maybe a problem for our LC-130s (Hercs for short) to land. The Hercs can carry a lot of our staff and cargo (which also holds my other bag with clean clothes and shoes >_<). So if the visibility drops below 1 mile, the LC-130s can't land and they have to turn back to McMurdo.
For the uninformed, the time 1200Z is in Greenwich Mean Time, which we meteorologists live and die by that time. Also at the Pole, we go by New Zealand Daylight Savings Time, meaning our time is 13 hours ahead of GMT and nearly a whole day ahead of the United States. So this makes it troublesome to contact home or catch up on sports. One more bit of info is that the winds on the meteorgrams are grid wind, meaning a wind from the north is aligned at the Prime Meridian, a south wind from 180 degrees and a west wind at 90 West Longitude. NZSP is our station identifier.
I hope that you enjoy your weather fix for now. It gets a little hard to keep up with numerical weather model updates since we are allowed only 9 hours a day to communicate outside our internal sites.
Until next time.
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Its good to know they are keeping you busy over there! :) Are you working over at Pole-Mart yet?
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