In the beginning of the story, how does the narrator describe the day?

It was a very cold and grey day, "DAY HAD BROKEN cold and gray, exceedingly cold and grey..." There was a certain foreboding to it,

"There was no sun nor hint of sun, though there was not a cloud in the sky. It was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun."