3d. Ground hard frozen. Morning clear & pleasant with but little wind and that from the South. Mid-day cloudy & lowering—variable afterwards—sometimes snowing, at other times Sunshine—Wind getting westerly. The Northern lights or aurora Borealis was seen last evening but not in a very conspicuous degree.
[Diary entry: 3 March 1780]
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- [Diary entry: 3 March 1780]
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- Washington, George
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- 3 March 1780
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- Year: The Weather at Headquarters
- Month: March [1780]
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- “[Diary entry: 3 March 1780],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-03-02-0006-0004-0003. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 3, 1 January 1771–5 November 1781, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1978, p. 347.]