I'm in Labrador this week for a few days. I lucked out with the weather, it was sunny today and a some of the same for tomorrow. This is my first visit to Goose Bay and Labrador. Here is a map showing Goose Bay.
There is about 150 cm of snow on the ground.
The site is located at an Environment Canada Upper Air site located in town.
My car rental is a Pontiac G6.
There is a lot of snow here.
This site also does upper atmosphere measurements for Environment Canada as well as tropospheric ozonesondes. On this morning the operator was doind an ozonesonde.
It was a bright sunny day, but not too cold, only around -5°C.
Preparing the weather balloon.
Ready to launch, prior to launch they have to get permission from the local airport.
Up, up and away
This intersection had five stop signs. You can count four of them, plus the one I was stopped at.
Some of the snow is up to the second floor. This is all snow that has fallen, no drifting here.
The snowbanks are almost twice as high as my car.
The snow is higher than the stop signs.
In the building there was an old typewriter, haven't seen one of these in awhile.
The weather wasn't as nice today, they were calling for 5 cm of snow and increased winds.
There was this place called Fur Harvesters. A closer look at the sign above the garage. Not sure what they do with the Scrap Meat.
Gas prices in Goose Bay were $101.40.
Some of the snowbanks on the main road. Notice the pedestrian crossing sign, with that much snow, there are no sidewalks. People have to walk on the main road.
The waiting lounge at the Goose Bay airport.
My flights back to Toronto were on time, was able to walk of the Goose Bay to Halifax flight and then walk onto the Halifax to Toronto plane. Because of the connection, my luggage was at the top and it was one of the first bags out in Toronto.
