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I HAVE cursorily examined the records from ten registering balloons sent up from Ditcham Park and Pyrton Hill on May 18, 19, and 20. Nearly all the traces show large fluctuations of temperature; but such fluctuations have been observed before, and there is nothing that leads me to suppose that the passage of the earth through the tail of the comet, if, indeed, it occurred before 7 a.m. on May 20, had any effect on the temperature of the upper air. Five of the balloons reached 17 km. or more, and all exceeded 13 km.
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DINES, W. Meteorological Observations during the Passage of the Earth through the Tail of Halley's Cornet. Nature 83, 427 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083427a0
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