“The weather”

Authors

Date

2-8-1812

Newspaper

Charleston Courier

Page and Column

Page 3, Column 3

Newspaper Location

Charleston, South Carolina

Serial Number

326

Abstract

Weather report from Boston, Massachusetts, January 1812. Specific date is January 21, no mention of earthquakes.

Transcript

BOSTON, JAN. 21. The Weather.--For several days past the weather has been extremely cold. The thermometer on Saturday was 9 degrees below 0, and has been nearly as low several mornings in succession. A snow storm commenced on Saturday and has continued since, but with little mitigation of the cold. At Portsmonth, on Friday last, the mercury was 4 below 0, from 5 to 3 o'clock, P. M. At Vergennes, (Vermont) on the 13th inst. the thermometer at one time stood 30 below freezing.

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