In Antarctica this week, the daylight is dimming as the polar night approaches. "The weather is pretty changing at the moment. There are a lot of low-pressure systems coming from the Weddell Sea, leading to high wind speeds up to 55 knots and a lot of snowdrift," says meteorologist Elena Stautzebach. She is part of a small team of early-career scientists overwintering at the German research base Neumayer-Station Ⅲ. "In between, we have periods of sunny weather and temperatures around -10℃." But the darkness will be continuous starting on 28 May. It will last 56 days.
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