8th. A fall of nine or 10 Inches Snow in the Night from the No. Et. Wind continuing in the same quarter all the forenoon with a little Snow and some rain. In the afternoon the wind got westerly & in the evening cleared.
[Diary entry: 8 February 1780]
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- [Diary entry: 8 February 1780]
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- Washington, George
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- 8 February 1780
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- Year: The Weather at Headquarters
- Month: February [1780]
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- “[Diary entry: 8 February 1780],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0006-0003-0008. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, pp. 344–345.]