From Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journals:
13th MAY Thursday 1802 [my emphasis]. The day was very cold, with snow showers.
Friday May 14th 1802. A very cold morning--hail & snow showers all day.
Saturday [15th]. A very cold and cheerless morning. Molly tells me they had thick ice on a jug at their door last night. It snowed this morning just like Christmas.
Sunday 16th. A sunny cold frosty day a snow-shower at night.
Monday 17th May. Hail showers snow & cold attacked me.
Tuesday 18th May. Terribly cold.
Wednesday 19th May 1802. A grey morning--not quite so cold.
Thursday 20th May. A frosty clear morning.
Friday 21st May. A very warm gentle morning--a little rain.
Saturday 22nd May. A very hot morning, a hot wind as if coming from a sand desert.
So you see, 200 years ago the weather was as crazy as it is now--and even later into the year!
(journal quotations from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals, Oxford UP, 2002. Ed. Pamela Woof. Pp 99-101.)
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