Weather Report

It is snowing this morning in Kabul.  That means, among other things, that the trip to Kunar is almost certainly not going to happen, since anything going over the mountains is almost certainly fogged in.  It might mean that the air will be relatively OK today, since the moisture helps.  We actually have several field sites that routinely get trapped in the winter months.  Last year in Ghor, there were no flights for 42 straight days.  Badakhshan has been snowed in about 50% of the time this winter, and the people there haven't been able to get out to catch their flights in Kabul for their vacations.  In the south it's different; it doesn't snow in Kandahar or Helmand and the moisture is actually great for keeping the dust down.  But when the weather gets a bit drier, those sites will have frequent flight disruptions because of the sand and dust storms.  So, anyway, no travel today, so nothing planned until after we get back from Mauritius, when I need to go to Sangin, Khost, Murqab and Jalalabad.