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The
other night we went for a walk around East Bay to the ice
cliffs..
There was no wind, and I stood right up against the ice. We
could hear the ice cracking and groaning as the tide forces
of the water below pushed up from below the ice.
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The
ice is at least 2 metres thick so there is no chance of it
breaking. That will happen in late December.
I
will come back later and record the sounds of the ice creaking
and cracking because it is very creepy - but very beautiful
- much like I really like listening to thunder.
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nights are becoming long now, at 10:30pm here it is still light
without clouds. See the photo of the station looking into the
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Some
of the interesting sights around the station are the cranes
& other
machinery where the cabin has filled up with drift snow.
Drift
snow can get in through very small holes - about the size
of a pin, and gradually fill up a closed space.
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The
other day I watched the Met observer release the sonde balloon.
It
is full of hydrogen which is manufactured on site and has
a radiosonde attached below it.
The
radiosonde measures the temperature and humidity as well as
the wind speed as it travels up and transmits the data back
to the met office below. It uses GPS to measure the windspeed
very accurately.
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