In A Separate Peace, what are five examples of how weather conditions create a mood?

In A Separate Peace, John Knowles
uses a significant number of weather references to help set the
mood.

Some examples
include:

Chapter 1:  When Gene returns to Devon the weather
is dark and bleak.

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"It was such a gray and misty day that I could
not see the other side of the river, where there was a small
stadium."

"With nothing to block it the wind flung wet
gusts at me; at any other time I would have felt like a fool slogging through mud and
rain, only to look at a tree.  A little fog hung over the river so that as I neared it I
felt myself becoming isolated...The wind was blowing more steadily here, and I was
beginning to feel
cold."

Chapter 3:  On a
beautiful day, Gene and Finny go to the beach in the late
afternoon.

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"This kind of sunshine and ocean, with the
accumulating roar of he surf and the salty, adventurous, flirting wind from the sea,
always intoxicated
Phineas."

Chapter 4:  Right
before the disagreement between Gene and Finny about studying for the French exam and
ultimately, Finny's fall from the tree, the mood is one of renewal, as described by the
return of spring.

"August arrived with a deepening of all
the summertime splendors of New Hampshire.  Early in the month we had two days of light,
steady rain which aroused a final fullness
everywhere."

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"There was a latent freshness in the air, as
though spring were returning in the middle of
summer."

Chapter 6:  This
introduces the Winter Session at Devon.

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"Fall had barely touched the full splendor of the
trees, and during the height of the day the sun briefly regained its summertime power.
 In the air there was only an edge of coolness to imply the coming
winter."

Chapter 7:  This is
the snowfall that has the Devon students shoveling the railroads and Leper "touring" in
the snow.

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"The following weekend, however, it snowed
again, then two days later much harder, and by the end of that week the ground had been
clamped under snow for the
winter."

Whether it is
freezing weather or afternoon sunshine, John Knowles effectively uses various weather
descriptors to help the reader understand the ever-changing mood of A Separate
Peace.