No Flight No

Location:  McMurdo Station

Weather:  Blowing snow, 18F

We were trying to fly out to Lonewolf Nunatak for the second day in a row but the weather here at McMurdo has grounded us.  As you can see from the weather slide posted this morning the weather doesn't show any sign of improvement.

Weather is part of life here.  The personnel at USAP do a good job of trying to plan the flight schedules way in advance and do a pretty damn good job of being flexible when changes happen, but you just can't predict the weather many months ahead of time.

I would like to wish you all in the US a Happy Thanksgiving.  It's already Friday morning here and it is traditional for McMurdo to celebrate its Thanksgiving on Saturday (your Friday).  As I said two years ago on this date, all that is missed is the Lions on the TV.

The pictures are of the morning weather brief and Condition 1 weather on the sea ice.