the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station
The sun will rise briefly over the [South] pole on Tuesday, the spring equinox, for the first time in months.
Crew on Way to Rescue South Pole Worker (washingtonpost.com)
The sun will rise briefly over the [South] pole on Tuesday, the spring equinox, for the first time in months.
Crew on Way to Rescue South Pole Worker (washingtonpost.com)
Re: Taping of Windows During Storm
As for tape, I have heard more people than not say it is not worth it. It may help with glass cleanup a little bit, but my personal experience in Florida says you could use your preparation time much better by boarding up (this takes a lot of time.... be organized before the storm); bagging your computers, electronics, and important papers/photographs/heirlooms and getting your post-storm cleanup and repair supplies in order.
National Hurricane Center / Tropical Prediction Center is the mother of Isabel news.
Hurricane Hunters: Cyberflight
As your eyes adjust to the glare of sunlight, you gaze out at one of the most awesome scenes in nature: the “stadium effect” inside the eye. A solid wall of clouds circles around the WC-130, as though you are floating in a giant football stadium made of clouds. You are inside a giant well that opens up miles above your head into a bright, blue sky. Congratulations…you’ve just joined an exclusive group: those few people who have entered the eye of a hurricane.These photos from a NOAA flight over Hurricane Isabel’s eye are rather astounding. The Goddard Space Flight Center has some great Hurricane Isabel satellite images, NASA’s Multimedia gallery has a boggling picture of the eye taken from the International Space Station, and, in the Washington Post’s Camera Works, Preparing for Hurricane Isabel.