APRIL, 1911 continued. 



April 3rd, 1911. 



8 a.m. During the night the wind blew from the E.S.E. ; it started before 12.30 p.m., and 

 J inch of snow fell. 



This morning at 6.30 a heavy snow scud was moving over Cape Adare from the E.S.E. 

 at a good pace. The sky to the S. was covered with dense black snow-cloud. The 

 mountains were obscured then, but are now showing, and the pall of stratus over the sky 

 has opened up a good deal and displays a radiant of Cirro-stratus and Alto-stratus with 

 the radiant point to the W.N.W. 



1 p.m. At 11 o'clock the sky cleared somewhat and the lower clouds arranged themselves 

 as Strato-cumulus rays with the rays running N.W. and S.E. 



Under them was the snow-scud from Cape Adare, and above them could be seen some 

 members of the Cirro-stratus and Cirro-cumulus radiant from the N.W. At 12 o'clock 

 the clouds were again closed in and a few crystals of snow fell. They have again cleared 

 now, and a considerable proportion of blue sky is showing. The snow was slightly increased. 



All the snow to-day has been in grains and spicules. 



April 4th, 1911. 



8 a.m. Barometer falling. N.E. wind blowing force 1 to 4. f inch of snow fell during the 

 night. Very light snow of two types (1) Crystals of ice, FII 9 and FII 10 and allied 

 types. (2) Granules with spikes sticking out from them. Sky densely crowded with 

 snow-clouds and glaciers and mountains blotted out. The snow-scud below the pall of 

 clouds is moving quickly from the S.E. 



A snow squall to the N. of us. Temperature rising very slightly. 



12 noon. About 11 o'clock the zenith cleared and a few Cirro-stratus and Cirro-cumulus 

 clouds could be seen trending W.N.W. and E.S.E. The clouds are now again closing in, 

 this time from the N.W. Heavy snow is falling to the N.W. and N., and has until recently 

 been falling to S.E., S.W., and S. 



At present the bottom 4,000 feet of the mountains are visible, but the rest, with the 

 exception of the summits of Mts. Minto a.nd Sabine, are hidden by a dense belt of Strato- 

 cumulus extending from Warning Glacier as far to the N.W. as we could see. The snow- 

 cloud immediately near the sun is Cirro-cumuliform and ragged, and this ragged portion 

 has been coloured from time to time with delicate colours of which purple and green are the 

 most prominent. I could make out no sequence in the colours which appeared very like 

 a network. 



Heavy snow shrouds Cape Adare above the 1,000-foot level, but at the time of 

 observation these were clearing as was the sky to the S. 



6.30 p.m. About 1 p.m. the clouds from the N.E. covered the whole of the sky in a dense 

 snow-cloud. The wind dropped about the same time and since then it has been calm, 

 with a little granular snow falling from time to time. 



Now a heavy snow is falling in flakes of crystals allied to FII 9, FII 10, and FI 4 and 5. 

 Cape Adare is blotted out. About f inch of light snow has fallen up bill now. Barometer 

 falling all day, but temperature steady with small range. 



12 p.m. Heavy snowsquall to the N.W. and N. as crescent-shaped Nimbus cloud. 



April 5th, 1911. 



10 a.m. Heavy snow to the W., N. and S.E. Clearing a little to the S. and S.E. 

 Mountains just visible. Slight granular snow falling here. 

 Barometer falling slightly during the night. 



8 p.m. Barometer rising slightly, but temperature falling steadily. Slight snow falling all 

 day. Mostly granular and spicular, about 1 inch in all, in addition to 2 inches during last 

 night. Sky heavily overcast. Calm or slight westerly or southerly airs. 



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