Current Weather Conditions for Garrison, North Dakota, approximately 45 Miles East of the Mouth of the Little Missouri River

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Sky: N/A

Temperature: 32° F

Dew Point: 26° F

Relative Humidity: 78%

Wind: from the west at 17 mph

Barometric Pressure: 30.06 inches and steady

President Thomas Jefferson's instructions to Captain Meriwether Lewis regarding the weather

. . . . Your observations are to be taken with great pains & accuracy, to be entered distinctly, & intelligibly for others as well as yourself, to comprehend all the elements necessary. . . .

Other object worthy of notice will be . . . . climate as characterized by the thermometer, by the proportion of rainy, cloudy & clear days, by lightening, hail, snow, ice, by the access & recess of frost, by the winds prevailing at different seasons. . . .

. . . . Given under my hand at the city of Washington, this 20th day of June 1803.

Th. Jefferson
Pr. U S. of America