Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899

by Frederick Albert Cook

Table VIII.—Table of Wind Directions.

The figures show the number of hours during which the wind blew from each direction.

	N.	N.	N.	E.	E.	E.	S.	S.	S.	S.	S.	W.	W.	W.	N.	N.
		N.	E.	N.		S.	E.	S.		S.	W.	S.		N.	W.	N.
		E.		E.		E.		E.		W.		W.		W.		W.
1898.
March	14	26	38	60	68	50	34	30	82	22	64	56	78	22	22	10
April	30	22	13	27	84	64	76	59	32	21	25	20	51	49	50	31
May	100	121	72	8	17	33	4	7	9	1	2	17	65	75	61	83
June	14	22	26	33	34	25	28	9	24	8	76	38	191	87	37	16
July	22	10	1	--	24	72	31	70	54	28	48	38	81	48	25	4
August	32	14	38	29	26	9	34	5	19	10	47	56	141	76	104	38
Sept.	51	24	74	44	46	22	28	14	49	16	47	21	59	45	24	17
Oct.	47	31	46	8	45	11	7	18	41	24	69	74	91	42	83	32
Nov.	34	35	69	93	79	32	21	14	21	31	37	28	38	28	18	21
Dec.	3	12	53	92	67	107	55	16	21	24	63	58	44	5	11	7
1899.
Jan.	8	16	124	156	104	84	52	72	20	12	28	16	8	--	--	--
Feb.	32	42	70	49	111	99	72	37	22	10	13	23	35	13	17	6
	387	375	624	599	705	608	442	351	394	207	519	445	882	490	452	265

Table IX.

Column 1 shows number of days of continuous fog or overcast sky.

Column 2 shows number of days with sky partially clear for several hours in succession (cloud amount 30 per cent. or more).

Column 3 shows number of days on which fog was observed.

	1	2	3
March	6	15	14
April	10	14	26
May	15	8	27
June	5	16	28
July	7	22	17
August	9	15	25
September	9	14	14
October	16	12	23
November	13	10	18
December	9	13	13
January	17	6	17
February	21	1	23

Table X.

Column 1 shows the number of days on which snow was recorded.