Grandma’s Diary (1942)

GRANDMA’S DIARY*
WEATHER INFO FROM JANUARY TO JUNE 1942
CONTRIBUTED BY NANCY NEWCOMER

January:

  • 6  – 7 below coldest morning this winter
  • 8 – 20 below and that was as low as our the. would go
  • 11 7 below a little warmer today
  • 13 7 above real nice
  • 18 it is real warm acts like it might rain
  • 19 rain & fogg

February:

  • 2 blew bad clear & cold H 10 – L 1
  • 5 our deepest snow this winter 6 in Harvey made paths
  • 6 sleeted rained then snowed certainly slushy
  • 7 all froze up today
  • 14 the wind blew cold & the sun looks like storm
  • 19 clear & sunny but cold & windy
  • 23 it snows off & on sometimes quite blustery

March:

  • 8 my its warm & muddy the roads are pretty bad
  • 10 we washed it was a nice drying day
  • 11 warm & in creasing cloudyness
  • 14 it rained & snowed & rained again
  • 16 we had thunder showers
  • 18 Carl was stuck for the 2nd time

April:

  • 3 a lovely spring day
  • 9 snowing very hard evening keep running & its slushy but the snow is 6 in deep
  • 10 still snowing the trees are laden down
  • 15 warm room fire out
  • 16 warm fire out doors open
  • 25 a warm day we saw a bluebird
  • 27 a cold rain in the morning but it warmed up swell
  • 29 too warm for comfort heard whippor will

May:

This was one of the nicest Mays I have ever seen the trees & lilac couldn’t of had more blossoms & the air was filled with their perfume until the killing frost came

  • 1 warm showers
  • 2 nice day
  • 11 a killing frost froze ice
  • 19 sprinkly all day
  • 20 drizzly & dark all day
  • 25 cool dreary

June

  • 1 rainy rained all day long
  • 2 another rainy day
  • 3 rained in the morning
  • 4 it was nice today but we had a shower
  • 5 a nice day no rain

 

*Commentary by Carol Dorward:

Grandma would have been 53 years old at the time of these (her first journal) records which she kept on a McNess 1942 calendar.

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