Tuesday, February 28, 2006
There is a castle in a cloud...
I woke up this morning to discover that overnight Eureka had transformed into a tropical weather station, with the temperature at -15.8. Up from the -25 or so we had yesterday. The lab where we work, being 600 m above sea level, often enjoys a temperature inversion - where the temperature increases as you go up in altitude from the surface as opposed to the normal decrease. So ordinarily when you see that it's -40 at the station, it's more like -30 here. Yesterday it was -11. Today it's -9. Really. I invite you to check the weather where you are to see how it compares. Also, the cloud base in Eureka is about 590 m, so PEARL is sitting in a cloud. It's almost warm enough to make snow men, though you wouldn't be able to see them from a few feet away.
// posted by Annemarie @ 8:40 AM 
