As a rule the velocity remained uniform; when it fluctuated in a series of gusts, all our experience was likely to fail, for no sooner had the correct angle for the maximum velocity been assumed than a lull intervened--with the obvious result TEXT ILLUSTRATION A copy of the wind-velocity (anenometer) and the wind direction (anemograph) for a period of twenty-four hours, Adelie Land This particular record illustrates a day of constant high velocity wind.— The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
A copy of the wind-velocity (anenometer) and the wind direction— The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

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