Happy Anniversary Roald

While thumbing through YouTube I ran across this. It is the perfect demonstration of how awful Antarctic weather is!

On this day in 1911, one hundred years ago, Roald Amundsen and his four man party reached the South Pole. They rode sleds pulled by dogs. It was an amazing achievement.

This will be my science story today. Researching. By the time the story gets written I will have become a short term expert.

I can’t say I always do, but I’m really looking forward to writing this one. There is a cool story to tell.

While thumbing through YouTube I ran across this. It is the perfect demonstration of how awful Antarctic weather is!

8 thoughts on “Happy Anniversary Roald”

  1. OMG, unbelievable! I’m freezing when it gets below 40 here, and forget the wind! Guess I won’t be spending my next vacation in Antartica!

  2. Wow Geoff this is fascinating! I’m a lover of winter weather and have been praying for snow since October. Will you keep showing us what increasing conditions look like? I’m really very interested. Thank you.

  3. Not so much a comment as a question: I’ve been writing a piece that centers on the polar regions of Canada (Nunavut) and it appears that the weather there, though bitterly cold, is much more tranquil—less snow, less wind. Maybe I’m really off base here, but when I look at conditions in Resolute or Repulse Bay, the skies are usually sunny (so to speak) and the winds, generally light. It’s a far cry from that almost frightening video. So am I really off base?

    1. Resolute average around the same amount of precipitation as interior Antarctica. Still, because it’s so cold, that’s a very fluffy 110″ of snow a year! The wind average 18 mph this time of year. That’s a pretty high average.

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