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Charles
1955
Lemmon
12.
Aug 23 Point Barrow, Alaska
pushed up assembling a note
turnout of more sunny climate.
On the SW side of cyclone 41
there was some snow caught and
held by the hardware cloth so
that there was a difference of
about an inch between the inside
and outside snow levels. The
heavy pellet area in cyclone 44
was bare as was the heavy pellet
areas surrounding it. Do they come
out of the anns to defecate?
The snow depth was 11-12 cm.
around ex 31 and it was a harder,
more solid covering than 21 or 11.
Ex 21 had 7-9 cm of snow with
much more vegetation showing
than in 31. Ex 11 had 12-13 cm
snow with the seed heads
of Dupontia some 18 cm above the
surface. Dampert more snow
will be held here than in the
other more exposed and less
vegetated areas. There has
been some melting today and the
snow is of good snowman making
consistency. Tonight about 2130 it