lltli, 1911 continued. 



12 noon. Overcast, with occasional drift-bearing gusts from the S.S.W. and W. A steady 

 southerly wind is carrying drift past the two capes of the bay. 



2 p.m. The weather is substantially unchanged, but slightly clearer. 



4.30 p.m. A N.E. wind is blowing, but is probably a local eddy from the southerly. Tem- 

 perature 7 F. 



This day has seen the most westerly extension of the blizzard, when it reached as far W. as 

 Point Penelope and Three Islands Point on the coast. In the bay we were almost entirely 

 sheltered, none of the gusts being of sufficient strength to cause the formation of any hard drifts, 

 though they were sufficient to carry an intermittent, low and large-grained drift which changed 

 the position of some of the snow in the bay, and to add to the soft drifts round the ice-foot by 

 sweeping the recent accumulation of soft snow off the face of the cliffs on the projecting points of 

 which the latter had lodged. (R. E. P.) 



September 12th, 1911. 



EAST. WAENING GLACIER TO CAPE ADARE. 



At 4 a.m. the barometer had risen to 28 9", and early in the forenoon it reached 29 0". The 

 wind had now moderated, but a thick drift was pouring off the top of the cape, and vision was 

 obscured beyond a hundred yards. 



At 12.20 p.m. the wind had quite dropped and the air had cleared a good deal. On the way 

 home sun-dogs could be seen accompanying the sun from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 



The quantity of pebbles blown from Cape Adare seemed to suggest that the wind had been 

 unusually strong, but from our sheltered position we were unable to judge of this, though by the 

 noise and streams of drift it certainly seemed to be blowing from force 10 to 12. 



(Levick and Browning.) 



WEST. RELAY BAY TO THE BAY OF BERGS. 



8 a.m. Temperature -- 14-2 F. Overcast with Nimbus haze, but inclined to clear. Slight 

 granular snow falling. Calm. 



9.45 a.m. Slight northerly breeze. Sky clearing. Sim shining. Bank of Nimbus to N. 

 and E. 



2 p.m. Nasty N.W. breeze blowing and overcast. Slight snow falling. 



3.30 p.m. It is very hazy and thick low down and a slight spicular snow is falling. The sky 

 is clear near the zenith. The sun has just disappeared behind the cliff, and was accompanied 

 by horizontal sun-dogs for some time before it set. Calm or light N.W. airs. 



6 p.m. Temperature -- 10-5 F. Sky clear but for Nimbus haze low down to the N. and E. 

 Calm. 



This day saw the end of the blizzard and an immediate clearing up of the hazy weather that 

 had accompanied the disturbance on the W. side of the bay ; this clearing has already begun to 

 be accompanied with a fall of temperature. 



I do not think that Levick's pebbles off the cliff are necessarily a testimony to the unusual 

 force of the blizzard, but that they should rather be considered a witness to the increasing force 

 of the sun's rays. (R. E. P.) 



September 13//<, 1911. 



EAST. CAPE ADARE. 



8 a.m. S.E. airs. Cnmulur snow falling. Clouded with Ximbus. Clear to the S.E. 

 Temperature --13 F. 



8 p.m. Calm and clear. Barometer rising slowly. Temperature fulling. Slight spicular 

 snow fell during the day, and clouds of snow could be seen moving along the mountains 

 to the S. A light Stratus cloud stretched across the foot of the mountains to the S.E. 

 4 hours' sun. (Browning.) 



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