January 24
Posted by sydney on Jan 24th, 2009
Parus Major, the Great Tit. Photo: Marek Szczepanek
- 1784: January 24, 1784 – The Thermomr at Totnes, in the county of Devon abroad this evening, was, I hear, at 6.
- 1781: January 24, 1781 – Flood at Gracious street.
- 1775: January 24, 1775 – Dark & sharp, sun, cutting wind, hard frost. Icicles. Note: Chaucer, speaking of Goassamer as a strange phenomenon, says, “As sore some wonder at the cause of thunder;/ on ebb, & flode, on gosomer, & mist;/And on all thing; ’till that cause is wist.”
- 1774: January 24, 1774 – Stone-curlews still appear on Temple farm.
- 1773: January 24, 1773 – Parus major sings. Hedge-sparrow essays to sing.
- 1771: January 24, 1771 – Sky strangely streaked with blue and red. Wind & rain in the night. Larks rise & essay to sing. Daws begin to come to churches.