Entry Index: 192
Position: No position
Date by Position: 3 January 1880
Logbook Volume: 1 of 4
Logbook Metadata: Volume 1
Water expended during the preceding 24 hours: 33 gallons Water distilled during the preceding 24 hours: 33 gallons Coal consumed during the preceding 24 hours: 357 lbs Coal remaining on hand at noon: 99 tons 935 lbs AM Weather clear and pleasant with moderate northerly and easterly winds. Barometer reaches its maximum at 6am and commences to descend. Temperature slowly rising. Ice in motion to S'd. An auroral arch 20° in altitude was observed at 1 in N. and N.W.; a faint aurora 15° in altitude, N. at 2; and faint auroral streamers in N.N.E. at 4. Early daylight at 8. Sounded at noon in 31 fathoms. Slight westerly drift. At noon clear daylight, the surface of the ice floe being illuminated, and the cirrus clouds in the southern horizon being tinged with a red glow. Aired bedding in deck house. The surgeon commenced his usual monthly examination of the officers and men. PM Weather continues clear and pleasant with occasional haze. Winds veer to S.E.'ward, barometer still falls and temperature rises. At 6pm faint auroral gleam in N.; at 7 the same to N.N.W.; at 9 an auroral arch to N. which became very brilliant at 10, and at 11 became a faint broken arch 10° in altitude. Loom of land visible at noon to S.S.W. true. Moon 6° S. Full moon
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At one a.m. the ice was again in motion to southward.
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Hour |
Wind |
Pressure |
Att'd |
Dry |
Wet |
Sea |
Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nxe | 31.14 | — | -38.5 | — | — | bz |
| 2 | nxe | 31.14 | — | -38.0 | — | — | b |
| 3 | nxe | 31.14 | — | -38.0 | — | — | b |
| 4 | ne | 31.14 | — | -37.5 | — | — | b |
| 5 | ene | 31.14 | — | -37.5 | — | — | b |
| 6 | ene | 31.14 | — | -37.5 | — | — | b |
| 7 | ene | 31.09 | — | -37.5 | — | — | b |
| 8 | exn | 31.08 | — | -37.0 | — | — | bc |
| 9 | exn | 31.05 | — | -35.0 | — | — | bc |
| 10 | ene | 31.04 | — | -34.5 | — | — | bc |
| 11 | exs | 31.01 | — | -33.0 | — | — | bc |
| 12 | exn | 30.98 | — | -32.5 | — | 28.0 | bc |
| 13 | exs | 30.95 | — | -30.0 | — | — | bc |
| 14 | exs | 30.92 | — | -29.5 | — | — | bc |
| 15 | exs | 30.88 | — | -28.0 | — | — | bc |
| 16 | exs | 30.85 | — | -27.0 | — | — | bc |
| 17 | exs | 30.83 | — | -27.0 | — | — | bz |
| 18 | exs | 30.82 | — | -26.8 | — | — | bz |
| 19 | ese | 30.8 | — | -26.5 | — | — | bcz |
| 20 | ese | 30.8 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 21 | ese | 30.78 | — | -26.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 22 | ese | 30.72 | — | -25.0 | — | — | bcz |
| 23 | sexe | 30.7 | — | -24.0 | — | — | bz |
| 24 | sexe | 30.67 | — | -23.5 | — | — | bz |
