Yesterday's Weather

Here's a cloud named Jack, from Cruises in Small Yachts and Big Canoes by Harry Fiennes Speed, 1883.

"What recked she at the storm, or that the dull November day was passing into darkness?" from Birkheda Vicarage by Johanna Christina Augusta von Hofsten, 1874.

From Die Puppenspiele des Grafen by Franz Pocci, 1909.

"'What an abominable day!' I said crossly, by way of pleasantly opening the conversation."  From As In a Looking Glass by Francis Charles Philips, 1889.

From The World's Inhabitants by George Thomas Bettany, 1888.

"Dry haze," from Tropical Nature, 1876.

"The World's Umbrella" (obviously), from St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

"Mrs. Western spoke, or rather thundered an answer."  From Dicks' English Library of Standard Works, 1884.

This is as good an explanation of the weather as we've heard from any meteorologist.  From Prodigiorvm ac Ostentorvm Chronicon, 1557.

From True as Steel by Jules Marie Alfred Girardin, 1884.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.

From The Works of Charles Dickens, Household Edition.

"A pleasure excursion," from The Foreign Freaks of Five Friends by C. A. Jones, 1882.

From Under Nordlysets Straaler by Sophus Tromholt, 1885.

Here's a picnic illustrated by John Leech, from Pictures of Life and Character, 1886.