PREVIEW

A meteorologist working in the Arctic was greeted by a family of polar bears peering through her window. Katarzyna Kudlacz was working at the Polish Polar Station Hornsund on the icy island of Spitsbergen in the Arctic Ocean when a mother and her two cubs appeared as she was preparing to start her day. As the bears looked into the windows of the polar station with great interest, Katarzyna immediately alerted the entire station. Leader of the 46th Polish Polar Expedition, Daniel Kepski, clarified that the bears visited the base on 27 March, at 7 am local time. Daniel speculated that the sighting marked the return of a polar bear family who visited the base on 9 December last year at 5 am. A spokesperson for the research station wrote on Facebook that the bears’ morning visit gave Hornsund’s residents a start, joking, “We didn’t need coffee to wake up this morning!”.