[Diary entry: 24 January 1787]

Wednesday 24th. Mercury at 46 in the Morning—49 at Noon and 48 at Night.

Raining more or less all day. In the Morning there were some appearances of the weather clearing, but it soon thickened and set in to raining, slowly till towards sundown, when the clouds again broke to the Westward. In the Night the wind blew fresh from the So. West & Continued to come from that quarter all day but very moderately.

At home all day.

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Title: [Diary entry: 24 January 1787]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 24 January 1787

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 24 January 1787],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0002-0001-0024. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 5, 1 July 1786 – 31 December 1789, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979, p. 98.]