http://www.almanac.com/blog/weather-blog/first-thanksgiving
Since Thanksgiving is just around the corner I thought it would be interesting to look at the first Thanksgivings weather. Though we do not have a newscast of what the weather was. An accurate guess can be made. The pilgrims were very interested in the weather and made lots of mentions of the weather in the diaries according to the article. They did not talk about the conditions on the day of Thanksgiving which would lead one to believe it was a normal New England day. It probably was a partly sunny with temperatures around 60 according to the article. This would be something to be thankful for after the stormy trip, followed by the harsh winter and spring.
I would be very thankful for warm weather on Thanksgiving! Especially since my wife will make me go Black Friday shopping.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting. I didn't know the first Thanksgiving was in October but if they had waited until November the weather would've been quite different, I'm sure!
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