Chap. I] CHARACTERS OF THE ARCTIC CLIMATE 



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one cannot recognize objects a couple of paces away ; these fogs, damp 

 cold, and penetrating, often wet one through like rain.' 



Kihlman 1 speaks in a similar way of Russian Lapland : ' A dense fog 

 sometimes persisting for weeks, that saturates everything and occasionally 

 cannot be distinguished from fine drizzle, is quite characteristic of the 

 summer months in districts on the coast.' 



Hann, in giving the general characteristics of the polar climate, mentions 

 the summer fog as a frequent ' great disadvantage.' 



The following tables give the climatic data for several points in north 

 polar countries, from west to east : — 



Arctic Climate. 

 FORT CONGER (GRINNELL LAND). 



8i° 44' N., 64 45' W., at sea-level. 

 (From Meteorol. Zeitschr., 1890, pp. 14 and 17. 



Maximum of insolation in May: mean, 21-3°; absol. maximum, 51-4° (May, 1883); 

 greatest difference between shade-temperature and sun-temperature, 40-50 . 



1 Kihlman, op. cit., p. 40. 



