Old Weather Forum

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On the weather page, please enter: date, locations, distances (nautical miles and tenths), courses, and all the weather data in the columns outlined in red in the spreadsheet.
It is not necessary to record State of the Sea.
However, ice mentioned in the weather grid should be transcribed using the magenta Sea column.

On the events page please enter: ice, location information, and sailing information.
Aurorae, volcanic, and seismic activity should be reported in the forum.
The names of US Navy and Coast Guard ships met should be noted. This gives the science team a chance to compare weather readings. You can include all ships mentioned in a single entry without a time or any additional data.
Other events are optional.

One person can do both weather and events (Stream 1), but the system also allows one person to do the weather page (Stream 1) and a second person to do the events page (Stream 3).
Unlike in OW3, where three transcriptions were required for each page, we are doing only one transcription per page.

Every transcriber needs to enter the date.
The date is used to organize the pages.

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See Atalanta — General for some general background and discussion.
See Atalanta — Examples for a quick introduction to transcribing or a refresher.

See Transcribing Guide to learn how to transcribe the data.
Post in Ask Questions Here or this topic if you have questions.

Direct links:

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I will start transcribing the 1944 Atalanta logs.
Anita

Great!

I'm currently transcribing April 1944 Atalanta.

Anita

Available from the middle of May on.

OK. So marked on the Status sheet.

22 July
Kodiak, Alaska

A very warm afternoon from 4 to 6 in Kodiak:
I'm surprised no-one died of heat stroke!!!

Looks like a problem with the instrument location

I have just 7 years of Kodiak Max/Min/Precip data. In that time 1949-1955, the July record temperature was 80F.

I looked at at Kodiak in Wikipedia and it has:

Climate data for Kodiak Airport, Alaska (1991–2020 normals,[a] extremes 1913–present)

It shows that the July extreme temperature is 83F.

19 August
Main dock, Finger Bay, Adak Island.

Even in these more modern times, it seems that they still have issues while trying to park.

While preparing to moor port side to main dock just forward of this vessel, the PCS-1459 struck this vessel a glancing blow of minor force damaging the vertical fighting light array on starboard wing of bridge.

25 August
Sweeper Cove, Adak Island

We've moored alongside the USCGC Clover and USCGC Cyane.

Here's the USCGC Clover


Here's the USCGC Cyane

I'm really having a hard time trying to read these events!!!

https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorag ... 8-0034.JPG

Wow!
That must be quite a shock after the kind of logs you are used to seeing

Another ship, USS Charleston

10-12 September
Off St. Matthew Island

It's a puzzle. We were taken off escort duty and sent to the southeast part of St. Matthew Island. We've been sending boats ashore and, on the 11^th we loaded boxes of delicate survey instruments from the island. It's a puzzle. There are no clues in the log.

On special mission as per mailgram serial #070152 September and verbal orders from the D.C.G.O Aleutian Representative.

https://navsource.org/archives/09/18/pdf/18040b.pdf
Says:
In 1944 the Coast Guard installed a loran (long aids to navigation) station on St Matthew to help U.S. ships and aircraft pinpoint their location. The Coast Guard stationed 19 men to operate the station there. No doubt these men were the first humans to live on the island for any length of time.