In the middle of the Antarctic winter, they had to survive intense blizzards and temperatures that plunged to –60C.
After two days of intense blizzards, with biting cold that had forced us to spend all our time below decks, the break in the weather and the approaching rescue had put the crew and passengers of the MV Akademik Shokalskiy in good spirits.
With that intense a blizzard, it follows that some of the snow is going to stick," he said.
Creating blizzard conditions, intense katabatic winds often blow northward off the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
"The flip side of that is the northern tier of the United states tends to be relatively mild and benign". That means the polar jet stream that made blizzards so intense in the Midwest and Northeast, like Boston, are generally weak in strong El Niño years.
The blizzard is so intense that they can't see much further than the end of their machine guns.
The weather was everything from 95 degrees intense in the sun to a snow blizzard.
As we head toward the home stretch of the 2012 campaign season the blizzard of TV political ads becomes more intense each day.
But he also said that in the wake of the blizzard, and the nonstop bad press he received, he had become "totally more intense" and would log even longer hours than his usual 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. schedule in City Hall.
The opening points passed in a blizzard of high quality baseline slugging as Murray attacked the Djokovic serve and after 22 brain-manglingly intense minutes the British No1 got his first little nudge in front, breaking serve to go 2-1 up.
After a blizzard of online focus groups, the drawing up of some peculiar word clouds, a lot of meetings and some intense data analysis, they developed a coherent message for lawmakers.
