A warm rain.

June 20.

June 20, 2017

Heavy rain all day and part of the following night. It comes down perpendicularly. 

By noon nearly an inch and a quarter falls into a large tin pail with upright sides placed in the garden for the purpose, and by the next morning there is two and one eighth inches, - which is the whole of it.

More rain falls to-day than any day since March, if not this year.

It is a warm rain, and I sit all the day and evening with my window open.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, June 20, 1860

More rain falls to-day than any day since March, if not this year. See note to June 17, 1860 ("A steady gentle rain here for several hours, and in the night again, the thunder, as yesterday, mostly forerunning or superficial to the shower. This the third day of thunder-showers in afternoon, though the 14th it did not rain here.");  See also June 14, 1858 ("The river is raised surprisingly by the rain of the 12th. The Mill Brook has been over the Turnpike.");   June 15, 1858 ("Rains steadily again, and we have had no clear weather since the 11th. The river is remarkably high, far higher than before, this year, and is rising."); June 17, 1859 ("Rain, especially heavy rain, raising the river in the night of the 17th."); June 17, 1859 ("Heavy rain, raising the river in the night.")

June 20. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, June 20

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau

"A book, each page written in its own season,

out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2021