JUNE, 1911 continued. 



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4 a.m. Southerly wind of force 10 to 11. Hurricane force in gusts. 



Barometer steady, has been falling rapidly. Temperature rising. Partly overcast 

 and hazy. Slight drift. Pebbles flying in gusts. 



At 'the midnight observations Campbell got his hands frostbitten and broke the 

 Maximum thermometer in half. Unfortunately, this is our last, so these observations 

 will have to be discontinued. I have unshipped the Minimum and Terrestrial Radiation 

 thermometers as the wind blows their dumb-bells down into the bulbs. The thermograph 

 has again given such an unsatisfactory record that I have brought it in, and am trying 

 it in the hut for the week to see if its weakness is due to the cold, and to try and locate the 

 trouble. 



10 a.m. Wind still strong. Overcast. Barometer and temperature steady. Slight drift, 

 all probably from Cape Adare. 



10p.m. The wind continued until between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., gradually decreasing in force 

 during the afternoon. At 8 p.m. the wind was still from the E.S.E. but was fairly steady 

 in gusts of force 3 with long calms in between. Between 9 and 9.30 Dickason reported 

 wind from the W., and at 10 p.m. a wind of force to 2 was blowing from the N. The 

 sky has cleared though still slightly hazy. The glaciers are still obscured. Barometer 

 has risen quickly during the afternoon. The temperature has been steady to-day, about 

 zero, but is now falling. 



June 20th, 1911. 



4 a.m. At 2 a.m. the weather was clear with northerly airs, though the glaciers were obscured, 

 and there was a good deal of light Stratus and haze at low altitudes. Now the sky has 

 been completely covered with Nimboid snow-cloud, so that the moon only shows as an 

 indefinite light patch and a S.E. wind of force 1 is blowing. Temperature is inclined to 

 rise and the barometer is steady 



10 a.m. Calm or southerly airs. Thickly overcast with a Nimbus fog. 



Mountains blotted out and Cape Adare indistinct. inch snow during the night. 

 Slight spicular and granular snow still falling. Temperature steady and barometer 

 falling. 



8 p.m. Calm. Clear except to S. and N. Slight haze and slight spicular snow falling from a 

 clear sky. The total fall of snow last night and to-day may be roughly estimated at f inch, 

 and it has all been granular and spicular. The sky was completely overcast during the 

 morning but cleared from the N. during the afternoon. This evening heavy Stratus 

 has again formed to the N. and the glaciers are obscured by snow fog. The prevalent 

 airs to-day have been southerly. Barometer falling to steady. Thermometer falling. 



June 21 at, 1911. 



4 a.m. Calm. Overcast. Occasional southerly airs. Temperature rising. Barometer falling 

 slowly. 



10 a.m. Calm. Overcast except for a strip of clear sky to the N. 



Glaciers very heavily obscured. Whirlwinds of drift moving along Cape Adare. 

 Sound of wind or pressure behind Cape Adare. Temperature fairly high bub falling 

 slightly. Barometer falling very slowly. 



12 noon. Northerly wind of force 1 to 3. B.4C.6 clouded from N. Very thick still to S. and 

 W., and a band of Stratus to N. Very heavy snow moving along Cape Adare. These 

 whirlwinds along Cape Adare we have been logging as drift, but I fancy they are due to 

 direct precipitation caused by a wind with a high relative humidity striking the cold 

 cape, and not true drift, meaning fragments of ice and snow caught up from the ground. 

 This snow is moving down oft' the cape and whirling along the sea-ice beyond except 



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