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JUNE 



On June 1 a low pressure centered near Nova Scotia elongated its 

 shape to the eastward causing easterly winds to blow around the 

 Grand Banks. As this depression moved northeastward the wind 

 hauled to the southward, but the "low" hovered in the vicinity of 

 Newfoundland until the 4tli instant, when it was displaced by a large 

 anticyclone. The fog caused by the southerly winds during the first 



Fig. 10.— June weather diagram 



three days in June lifted on the 4th, giving the patrol an opportunity 

 to scout for ice during the succeeding four days. It was unusually 

 clear June 7, when the anticyclone completely surrounded the Grand 

 Banks, and on that day we sighted several bergs the exceptionally 

 long'distance of 20 miles away. 



A disturbance was noticed on the meteorological map for June 3, it 

 being centered over the Mississippi River Valley, and its path across 

 the country and over the ice regions is shown on Figure 11, marked 



