Clear and wintry freezing cold with strong wind like the beginning of winter.

November 24

November 24, 2023

At noon, after a drizzling forenoon, the weather suddenly changes to clear and wintry, freezing cold with strong wind from a northerly quarter. It seems like the beginning of winter. 

Ice forms in my boat at 5 p. m., and what was mud in the street is fast becoming a rigid roughness.

This after more than a week of mild and much drizzly weather without frost one or two of the fairest days being Indian-summerish. 

Methinks we have had clear yellow sunsets and afterglows this month, like this to-night (not glowing red ones), with perhaps an inclination to blue and greenish clouds. 

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, November 24, 1853

It seems like the beginning of winter.  See November 25, 1855 (" On the 17th the first snow fell, and the 19th it began to be cold and blustering. That first slight snow has not yet gone off! and . . . the last three or four days have been quite cold, the sidewalks a glare of ice and very little melting. "); November 24, 1857 ("Cold Thanksgiving weather again, the pools freezing."); November 24, 1858 ("When I looked out this morning, the landscape presented a very pretty wintry sight . .. [snow] had lodged on every twig, and every one had its counterpart in a light downy white one, twice or thrice its own depth, resting on it."); November 24, 1860 ("The first spitting of snow — a flurry or squall – from out a gray or slate-colored cloud that came up from the west. This consisted almost entirely of pellets . . .[that] drove along almost horizontally, or curving upward like the outline of a breaker, before the strong and chilling wind. The plowed fields were for a short time whitened with them.")

Ice forms in my boat. See November 24, 1855 ("Ice has frozen pretty thick in the bottom of my boat.”); December 2, 1854 ("Got up my boat and housed it, ice having formed about it.”)

Clear yellow sunsets and afterglows this month. See November 15, 1853 ("Just after sundown, the waters become suddenly smooth, and the clear yellow light of the western sky is handsomely reflected in the water."); November 18, 1857 ("The sunlight is a peculiarly thin and clear yellow . . . There is no redness in it. This is November sunlight.")See also A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, November Sunsets

November 24. See A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, November 24

Clear and freezing cold,

the beginning of winter –

ice forms in my boat.

Clear yellow sunsets

and afterglows this month with

blue and greenish clouds.

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, Clear and wintry  freezing cold

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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

out-of-doors, in its own locality."

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