COLD, THEN WARM
STRANGE CLIMATIC CHANGES IX ANTARCTIC TUNNEL WORK PROGRESSING WELL. v (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Alay 25. 7 pan.) MONTREAL. Mav 24. A radio from Little America stales that that area is undergoing remarkable changes of temperature, ranging from tho bitterest, cold to comparative wnrmtr, intermixed with violent storms. On Sunday night .the thermometers were 62deg. below zero: at noou yesterday they had risen to 17dog. above, with warm winds from the north of gale proportions which swept- across the frozen Ross Sea, bringing grey sheets of drift and snow. Then quiet returned and the temperature is now steadily sinking, now being lldeg. below zero. The tunnel work is progressing well, the crew digging one tunnel from the old mess hall to the new* mess hall from which another is being bored to tjio administration building.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12263, 26 May 1934, Page 5
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