Thursday 29th. Thermometer at 35 in the Morning—35 at Noon and 44 at Night. So. Wt. & very lowering all day—towards Night it began to brighten a little and the sun set clear.
“[Diary entry: 29 January 1789],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-05-02-0004-0013-0029. [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. 443.]