SummerAtSummit

Sorry, but not the kind that you might have been expecting.  There was a lot of talk around lunch and the field was being prepared:

Unfortunately, the weather did not not coopperate (though some of us suspected it might not:)  It got pretty windy during the day and that’s not something you want when you’re kicking a ball around on a sheet of ice. The boxes sitting in the snow are a SODAR instrument that I think someone from NOAA is operating.  You can tell it’s working by the “beep”…”beep”…”beep”…that echoes across a small section of Greenland.

So tonight I ended up doing a little work and caught yet another sun pillar.  Sorry if it’s repetitive, but I think they’re cool and didn’t realize that it’s almost a nightly occurrence.  This one was noteworthy because it really lit up the ground at the horizon and there were sundogs that did the same.  (if we were talking in person, I’d make a comment about the sun’s rays being more focused close to the pole, but I figure it  wouldn’t be as funny)  I couldn’t get it all in one shot and, as usual, the photo doesn’t do it justice:

Sundog:

There was someone in the Big House tonight who was doing a check for a video conference with people at the South Pole and the Exploratorium in San Fransisco.  The conference will be Friday night and I might get a speaking part…I’ll have an update tomorrow, but in the meantime feel free to bookmark:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/webcasts/index.php

It’s the solstice one, so that would be 11p central, 12a eastern.  -Jeff