WINTER “HEAT WAVE”
CONDITIONS IN ANTARCTIC UNUSUAL TEMPERATURES. Received June 6, 9.5 p.m. MONTREAL, June 5. A wireless message from Little America states: Thi? Polar community entered the fourteenth day of what, for want of a better equivalent, might be called “the hottest winter heat wave in the memory of the oldest, inhabitants.” At eight in the morning the temperature soared to 25 degree above zero, and io add to the complexity, a blizzard was thudding soft moist snow out of the east, which was almost like rain. However, fhe warm spell is a boon to the expedition tractor department, which is busy overhauling the thre machines. Handling metal at low temperatures is cruel work, and the men are glad when it i ■ moderated.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 133, 7 June 1934, Page 5
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124WINTER “HEAT WAVE” Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 133, 7 June 1934, Page 5
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