103daysofdarkness:WINTER IS HERE May 1st was the last day we’ll see the sun above the horizo
103daysofdarkness: WINTER IS HERE May 1st was the last day we’ll see the sun above the horizon until next Spring and marked the beginning of our ‘103 days of darkness’ of the Antarctic winter here at Halley. The Union flag that’s been flying over the base throughout the summer was lowered as the sun shone it’s last and won’t be flying again until a new one is raised when the sun comes back to mark the beginning of Spring. We celebrated (or drowned our sorrows, depending on how you choose to look at things!) with a glass or two of rapidly freezing wine and a BBQ, which, at -30 was primarily useful for stopping your beverage freezing! So, Winter is well-and-truly upon us now, with a couple of weeks of brief dawn and dusk around noon before the last vestiges of sunlight dip too far below the horizon and leave us in the true darkness of winter. -- source link