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.