Still cold and blustering.

March 25.

Still cold and blustering. The ditches where I have seen salamanders last year before this are still frozen up. 

Was it not a sucker I saw dart along the brook beyond Jenny’s? 

I see where the squirrels have fed extensively on the acorns now exposed on the melting of the snow. The ground is strewn with the freshly torn shells and nibbled meat in some places.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 25, 1855

Still cold and blustering. See March 24, 1855 ("The last four days, including this, have been very cold and blustering. ");  March 28, 1855 ("I run about these cold and blustering days, on the whole perhaps the worst to bear in the year.");  See also March 25, 1854 ("Too cold and windy almost for ducks. "); March 11, 1860 ("It is cold and blustering walking in the wind, though the thermometer is at 40; i. e., though the temperature is thus high, the strong and blustering northwest winds of March make this notorious March weather, which is worse to bear than severe cold without wind."); April 7, 1858 ("A cold and gusty, blustering day. We put on greatcoats again.")