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June 12/A, 1U11. 



10 a.m. Calm or light .southerly winds. Clear. Signs of approaching southerly wind, with 

 scud forming on Capo Adare. Stratus on the northern horizon. 



8p.m. Only light variable winds all day. Warning and Sir George Newnes Glaciers are 

 obscured with Stratus and Scud is forming on Cape Adare and banking up to the N. 



10 p.m. Prismatic halo close round moon. Colours as follows : Outside to inside : Red, 

 green, blue, red, brown, white. The halo was well-marked when the moon was partly 

 veiled with scud, but was also quite plain against the indigo blue of the clear sky. 



June \'Mli, U)ll. 



2 a.m. Clear but slightly hazy. A few ice spicules falling out of the air. 



Slight southerly airs. A little Stratus on the northern horizon and scud on Cape 

 Adare. 

 4 a.m. Halo of 22 round the moon. Plain thin white band. 



10 a.m. Slight X.W. breeze. Glaciers half obscured by mist. Clear. Barometer has been 

 steady for several days. Temperature risen suddenly 5. 



10 p.m. At 11 a.m. whirlwinds of drift appeared on Cape Adare and moved rapidly from the 

 S.E. Previously to this the Cape had been capped with scud for several hours moving 

 in the same direction. From 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. inclusive a southerly wind of slight force 

 (3 to 4, to 1 to 2) blew here in gusts, carrying low intermittent drift. The sky remained 

 clear and now the wind has ceased for several hours and it has either been calm or light 

 southerly airs. At the 10 p.m. observation a slight breeze from the S.E. was blowing 

 but it was qmte momentary. 



Fine prismatic halo round the moon against the clear sky. 



The sky is covered with a light hair-like scud in its northern or rather N.W. and 

 S.W. quadrants. The temperature has risen several more degrees since my last night. 



June lUli, 1911. 



2 a, m. The temperature has again fallen to normal ( 20 F.). Barometer rises slightly. 

 Clear except for a few high scud clouds above Cape Adare. 

 Calm. 



10a.m. Calm. Between a.m. and 10 a.m. the sky has become overcast with Stratus and 

 Cumuliform-stratus through which the moon shows dimly. There is still a blue patch 

 low down to the S. and S.W., and the glaciers are clear. 



Barometer rising slightly. Temperature is oscillating within a radius of a few 

 degrees. 



12 noon. Soon after 10 o'clock the sky started to clear from the Eastward and is now clear 

 except for a broad band of Strato-cumulus to the N. Another over Geikie Land and a 

 little scud on the S.E. portion of Cape Adare. Quite calm since my last note. 



2 p.m. Clouded over again from the E. and S. Clouds much as in last observation, with 

 the addition of Cirro-cumulus near the zenith. Browning drew my attention to drift 

 flying on Cape Adare just before lunch. Calm here. 



S p.m. The sky cleared again before 4 o'clock, except for a little Stratus on northern horizon. 

 By 15 o'clock this also had disappeared, but at present a few scud-clouds are forming above 

 Cape Adare and moving N. 



Calm or light southerly airs. Barometer or temperature steady. 



10 p.m. Sky clear of cloud. Slightly hazy in the upper atmosphere but no precipitation here. 

 Prismatic halo round the moon (Moon, white, brown, purple, red, green, blue). 



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