TABLE 82. 



METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, SECOND TRIP TO CAPE BARROW AND BEYOND, 



OCTOBER 4 T H TO 20TH, 1911. 



Observer : RAYMOND E. PRIESTLEY. 



(Barometer correction -j- 0-10 inches.) 

 October 4th, 1911. 



12 noon. Cloud cap on Cape Adare, but decreasing. Frost smoke off the N. end of the cape. 

 Bank of Stratus from the N. to the W. at a low altitude, with a fringe of Scud settling 

 slowly on to the main body from the S.W. 



Cloud cap on the hills to the S.W. Warning Glacier obscured. A long Stratus cloud 

 from Sir John Murray Glacier to Warning Glacier has disappeared. A few bits of Scud 

 still in the Western Mountains. Calm and bright sun. 



4.30 p.m. Clear and calm. Bright sun. All clouds gone, but a little Stratus to the N. and 

 Scud on different mountains round the bay, giving some of them the appearance of volcanoes 

 as it trails away to the W. Temperature at 6 p.m. 15 F. 



This is from Cape Adare to Relay Bay near Penelope Point. 



October 5th, 1911. 



RELAY BAY TO 1 MILE N. OF CAPE WOODBAR, 



6 a.m. Double prismatic halo round the moon. A little Scud on Cape Adare and Stratus to 

 the northward. 



8 a.m. Barometer 28-61". Temperature 12-5 F. Scud on Cape Adare. Stratus behind 

 Warning Glacier and on Geikie Land. Calm. Bright sun. 



12 noon. Barometer 28-69". A little Strato-cumulus from N. to W. on the horizon. A little 

 Cirro-cumuliform Scud on Cape Adare, otherwise clear. There were minute ice crystals 

 in the air when we got up this morning. 



1 p.m. Temperature 12-2 F. Light Stratus in front of Cape Adare at about 3,000 feet. 



3.30 p.m. Ice crystals in the air. The Stratus has spread right across to the W. from Cape 

 Adare. Calm. Bright sun all day. The drifts on our course show the prevalent wind 

 to have been S.S.E. 



6 p.m. Stratus clouds with a fringe of Cirro-cumulus spreading from Cape Adare and 

 descending the side of the mountain till within 1,000 feet of sea level. It extends from 

 the W., where it reaches a maximum altitude of 20, to across Warning Glacier and Geikie 

 Land. Calm at camp, but thin westerly airs inshore. Bright and hot sun till set behind 

 mountains. Temperature 25 F. Barometer 28-53". 



8 p.m. Temperature 28 F. Clouds have spread until the Scud fringe reaches to within 

 20 of the Western Mountains. Calm. Moon showing through the clouds with a whitish 

 brown halo. Cape Adare hidden to 500 feet. 



October 6th, 1911. 



WOODBAR TO 



6 a.m. Temperature 3 F. Sky heavily overcast with Nimbus haze. Slight spicular snow 

 falling. 



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