I saw the first two stars of the year today (don't have any pictures yet). Canopus and Sirius are visible now and we will be getting more and more stars every day now. We will be able to see auroras starting in about two weeks!
We had a few days of very light wind and we had hoar frost accumulate on everything. The ground, railings, flags, walls, pallets, glass, gas cylinders, literally everything. Mostly it accumulates on the windward side of objects but it covers everything it wants too. It kind of reminds me of moss.
We also had more yukimarimo, they were bigger this time. Here is one with a clipboard for scale. I was helping out one of the meteorologists with measuring the snow stake field today. This basically means walking around to 50 different stakes and measuring the height of the stake (this is done every month). The monthly heights are compared to find the overall accumulation over time.
They are such cute little puff balls!
Here is one I was able to pick up. The have the consistency of a very soft cotton ball, maybe a cotton ball that you pulled apart a little bit. You can poke it and it will hold the poke shape, but poke it too much and it will fall part in wisps and float away (imagine playdough made from clouds). I ate this one just for fun. It was very fluffy, kind of a weird consistency. Like denser cotton candy but lighter at the same time.
We are back down to about -84 F / -64 C and -123 F/ - 86 with wind chill (about 10 knots) but it looks like we should be getting another wind storm later this week and that will warm things up again.
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