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Was it snowing at the battle of Gettysburg? |
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June 30: Complete Cloud cover all day, partly cleared by 9 p.m. Wind was calm.
July 1: The entire sky was covered with clouds all day, cumulo-stratus at 7a.m. and 2 p.m., cirro-stratus at 9 p.m. A very gentle warm southern breeze, (2 mph). Thermometer: 7 am - 72; 2 pm - 76; 9 pm - 74
July 2: At 8 am, sky still covered (cumulo stratus). At 2pm, 3/10 clear. At 9 p.m. cirrus clouds. Wind same as preceeding day Thermometer: 7 am - 74; 2 pm - 81; 9 pm - 76
July 3: At 8am, sky again completely covered with cumulo-stratus clouds, at 2pm, sky only 4/10 covered, but with cumulus or the thunderclouds of summer; at 9pm, 7/10 cumulus. Wind SSW, very gentle. Thunderstorm in neighborhood at 6 pm. The thunder seemed tame, after the artillery firing of the afternoon. Thermometer: 7am - 73; 2pm - 87; 9pm - 76
July 4: Rain showers at 6 am, from 2:15 until 4 pm, and at 4 am on July 5 totaling 1.39 inches . Thermometer: 7 am - 69; 2 pm - 72; 9 pm - 70 There were slight showers on the 5th and the 7th, and on the 8th a rain from 3 am to 11:30 am measured 1.3 inches.
The maximum temperature for the month of July 1863 was 87 degrees (at the time of Pickett's Charge). On eleven days of the month the maximum temperature was in the seventies, on one day (the 17th) it was only 62 degrees.
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