JUNE, !'.)! 1 continued. 

 June, lltk, 1911 continued. 



10a.m. Calm or easterly airs. Clear to cloudy. Slight haze indicated by whitish ring round 

 the moon. Thick to S., glaciers obscured. 



Stratus on the northern horizon and scud above Cape Adare and to the N.W. and \V. 

 Temperature steady. (Maximum reading is probably due to the way it was shaken by 

 the previous observer.) Barometer rising. 



4p.m. Northerly airs or calm. Clear. Between 10 a.m. and noon the sky became overcast 

 completely from the N. and E., and the mountains were blotted out from our view by a 

 dense frozen fog while spicular snow began to fall. 



So dense was the fog that only the blurred outline of Cape Adare was visible, but 

 the precipitation was very slight, amounting to less than -jkinch in all. Between 3 p.m. 

 and 4 p.m. the sky cleared from the zenith and now there are only left Stratus to the \V. 

 and N. low down on the horizon, and a shroud of Nimbus covering Geikie Land and the 

 glaciers. 



The temperature went up 8 when the fog settled, but has already decreased until 

 nearly the same as the morning when the weather was clear. 



Barometer rising. 



8p.m. Calm. Clear but hazy. A few ice spicules are falling. The clouds are unchanged, 

 Barometer risen. Temperature steady. 



10 p.m. Calm. Clear. No haze. Occasional southerly airs. 



June 18/A, 1U11. 



4 a.m. Southerly airs. Clear. Temperature falling slightly. Barometer steady, high with 

 a slight tendency to rise. No clouds. 



10 a.m. Calm or southerly airs. Scud and Stratus to N. Glaciers hidden by frozen fog or 

 cloud. Hazy from zenith to W. Temperature steady and barometer rising. Whitish 

 ring round the moon. Scud moving from S.E. 



4 p.m. Calm to S.E. gusts of force 1 to 2. Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. the Nimbus haze 

 again shrouded the greater part of the sky and blotted out all land but Cape Adare. It 

 did not to-day, however, reach sea-level here but its lower level was on Cape Adare at 1 ,000 

 feet. It formed on Cape Adare as high columns of scud-like waterspouts or whirlwinds 

 in shape and moving bodily from the S.E. at a fair pace. It is now clearing from the N. 

 towards the zenith. 



For the last 2 hours there has been continual noise from behind Cape Adare. Opinions 

 are divided as to the cause of this noise. 



Undoubtedly we all agree that the indirect cause is a southerly wind, but some of 

 us think the noise to be due to pressure, due in its turn to a southerly swell or wind, and 

 this opinion is strengthened by the fact that we did not notice this noise until the sea had 

 been frozen over. 



Campbell is inclined to believe that the noise is due to the wind striking Cape 

 Adare itself. The barometer is high and steadily rising but the temperature has jumped 

 several degrees since this morning. 



p.m. At 5 p.m. Campbell noticed drift flying down off Cape Adare. At 5.30 a N.W. wind 

 of force 2 to 4 was blowing. The sky became much clearer to the N. and N.E. and to the 

 S. and S.W. At the 6 p.m. observations gusts of S.E. wind of force 2 to 3, carrying low 

 drift, alternated with strong gusts from the N.W. carrying strong local drift. Lulls between 

 these drifts were quite calm. The barometer has started falling. Temperature has remained 

 constant since the last observation. 



8 p.m. Southerly wind force to 5. Low and intermittent drift. Clouds dispersed but still 

 hazy. Temperature still rising. Barometer steady. 



10 p.m. Southerly wind of force 6 to 9. Slight drift. Barometer falling. Otherwise no 

 change. 



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