[Diary entry: 1 April 1786]

Saturday 1st. Thermometer at 34 in the Morning—34 at Noon and 32 at Night.

A very disagreeable mixture of Rain and fine hail fell all day, with a fresh and cold No. easterly wind. Towards night and in the Night it snowed. Few days or Nights this year have been more inclemt. and disagreeable than this.

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Title: [Diary entry: 1 April 1786]
Author: Washington, George
Date: 1 April 1786

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Cite as: “[Diary entry: 1 April 1786],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-04-02-0003-0004-0001. [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. 302.]