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16 January 2010
Back In The Real World (With very mixed feelings!)
We left Antarctica at 8 PM Friday night from the Pegasus ice runway at McMurdo. FIve hours later we landed in the first darkness we had seen in 7 days. Several people on the plane had not seen night in 3 months. They crowded around the window on the door of the C17 as the sun set as we flew Northward. Back to the real world. I have not seen …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.