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[Diary entry: 21 May 1786]

Sunday 21st. Thermometer at 60 in the Morng.—70 at Noon and 66 at Night.

A good deal, and heavy rain fell in the Night; with thunder & lightning; day warm, with sun shine & clouds alternately. Calm in the forenoon, & wind at East in the afternoon with thunder and great appearances of rain a little only of which fell.

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    21 May 1786

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    “[Diary entry: 21 May 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0003-0005-0021. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 4, 1 September 1784 – 30 June 1786, ed. Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 334.]