Talk:Second voyage of James Cook

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Cold weather in November?

Under heading “Voyage,” “Shortly after leaving they experienced severe cold weather and early on 23 November 1772 the crew were issued with fearnaught jackets and trousers at the expense of the government.”

Wouldn’t it have been summer in the Southern Hemisphere? Just wondering . . .

Dodiad (talk) 01:52, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

November is late spring in the Southern Hemisphere. Temperatures vary. Clearly they hit a cold period.-Gadfium (talk) 04:51, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It says they were one day out from the Cape, where average November temperatures are 15–22° C. Hard to imagine “severe cold weather” at that time of year at that latitude (~35° S.). Not really questioning the article, it just sounds odd to me. Dodiad (talk) 06:25, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It seems the fearnought jackets were indeed issued the day after they left the Cape, but the cold was not encountered until they had sailed quite a bit further south, in early December. See [1] (from Beaglehole's biography of Cook) for some details. —Kusma (talk) 13:15, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]