Dogdayish and showery, with thunder.

June 29, 2013 6:23 PM

June 29.

At 6 P.M. 91°, the hottest yet. 

A thunder-shower has passed northeast and grazed us, and at 6.30 or 7, another thunder-shower comes up from the southwest and there is a sudden burst from it with a remarkably strong, gusty wind, and the rain for fifteen minutes falls in a blinding deluge. 

The roof of the depot shed is taken off, many trees torn to pieces, the garden flooded at once, corn and potatoes, etc., beaten flat. You could not see distinctly many rods through the rain. It was the very strong gusts added to the weight of the rain that did the mischief. I think I never saw it rain so hard. 

Thus our most violent thunder-shower followed the hottest hour of the month.

H.D. Thoreau, Journal, June 29, 1860

At 6 P.M. 91°, the hottest yet. See June 30, 1855 (“2 P. M. -- Thermometer north side of house, 95°”); May 24, 1856 ("To-day is suddenly overpowering warm. Thermometer at 1 P. M., 94° in the shade!"); June 21, 1856 (”Very hot day, as was yesterday, -— 98° at 2 P. M., 99° at 3, and 128° in sun”); May 24, 1857(“At 3 p. m. the thermometer is at 88°).