In 1819, HMS Hecla
formed part of William Parry's first Northwest Passage expedition,
spending a winter in the Canadian Arctic. Several logs from this
expedition are in the ADM55 collection but in this case we have taken meteorological observations from a published account of the expedition instead.
AnalysisComparing the observed sea temperatures and air temperatures with typical values for the recent past (1961-90 normals) give a picture of the weather in the Canadian Arctic in 1819-20 - an area where no observations were previously available. (Detailed analysis .)An analysis of the weather records from this expedition has been published in Brohan et al. 2010. |  Voyage of the Hecla to Melville Island in 1819-20 View observations in Google Earth  Air temperatures experienced by the Hecla on the voyage:
Observed (red dots) and modern equivalent (black line). |