Cold and wet

May 22.

Another cold and wet day, requiring fire. The principal rain was during last night, and was quite considerable. Ceases to rain at midday, but continues foul.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, May 22, 1860

Another cold and wet day, requiring fire. See May 21, 1860 (“Cold, at 11 A.M. 50°; and sit by a fire”); May 27, 1860 ("Fire in house again"); also May 12, 1855 ("Cold enough for a fire this many a day. “); May 21, 1855 (“[C]old weather, indeed, from the 20th to 23d inclusive. Sit by fires, and sometimes wear a greatcoat and expect frosts.”).