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welche warsckeinlich von den nordöstlichm und nördlichen Winden,
die den gamen August hindurch gewelit liatten, herbeigefuhrt sein
mochten.»
The following extract from the meteorological journal of
the Nordenskiöld expedition in 1875 will give an idea of the
prevailing direction of the winds in August that year, which
was, as is well remembered, uncommonly favorable for
navigation.
In calculating the following results I have left out of
consideration all observations, wherein the force of the wind
is denoted by the numbers 1, 2 & 3 of the scale, because I
consider such winds to be too feeble to exert any remarkable
influence upon ocean-currents.
From the 1th August until the 3ra Sept., the wind blew*:
from NW during 8 hours with an average strength of 8
N 36 » » » » » » 7
NNE 40 » » 2> » » » 5
NE 4 » 2> :> ;> »4
SW 12 » » » » 6
ssw 8 > 3 » » » » 6
WSW :> 4 » » » » » » 5
SE 8 » » » :> » » 5.
The following transumt is taken from the observations of
the Vega-expedition, l3t to 19tb Aug., 1878.
wind from N during 24 hours with an average strength of 5
» NNE » 4 » » » » » » 5
t> » NE » 4 ;> » » » » »5
» 3 ENE » 16 » » » » » » 5
» » NW » 8 » » » ■» » »5
» » E » » » » » » » » 8.
Still there is a remarkable item to the above rule in the
following circumstance. The aforesaid winds from N and NE,
although highly effective in clearing the main part of the Kara
Sea from ice, may still be a hindrance to navigation by drifting
the remainder of the ice towards the shore of Waigatch and
thereby closing the Kara- and the Yugor strait until late in
summer. Nordenskiöld ascribes1 the delay caused by the
ice, on his second voyage to the Yenisei in 1876 with the
Ymer, to the cold weather and the prevailing unfavorable
winds from E and NE. But we can on the other side ascribe
1 Vegas färd kring Asien och Europa, Swedish Edition, page 15.
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