almost collapsed, while others still are peeling and more or less unscathed. There are also rusty barrels, fuel installations and distorted and toppled masts on the site.
An exposed spot in the world Many people will probably see a rubbish dump when they come to the old weather station and be surprised that no one has been here and cleared everything away. But there are also some of us who are pleased that the weather station has been allowed to fall into decay in peace and quiet in the rocky landscape, because it doesn’t take much imagination to breathe life into the station again and populate it with the dozen or so people who had their workplace and their home in this exposed spot for just over 30 years – 1948 to 1979. They routinely collected meteorological data and kept the station running. Weather observations were sent every three hours around the clock, a daily observation of the ice was made with a balloon up at 500 metres and the Northern Lights were observed. In addition, the weather station sometimes delivered flight meteorological data to the airport at Narsarsuaq. We also know that the radio station burned down on 18 July 1967, but that was not enough to interrupt the daily stream of weather observations from Timmiarmiut. On the other hand, one can only speculate about how their daily life was, but Leif Rasmussen, a Greenland meteorologist who made use of the observations from the station for more than 40 years, can certainly tell us that, from the weather aspect, Timmiarmiut was not a cosy little corner. The station’s crew was hit by frequent storms and regularly experienced very large amounts of precipitation. In the winter, they had to contend with several metres of snow that buried the station houses, and it was probably of little comfort that the snow was often more evenly distributed when the site was hit by violent piteraqs, storms which occur due to severe down currents from the inland ice sheet.