Yesterday's Weather

"The snow-kings," from Children's Fairy History of England by Forbes Edward Winslow, 1889.

"The rain dragon, from a Japanese drawing by Kano."  From The Mikado's Empire by William Griffis, 1883.

"A 'Willie-willie,'" from Wealth and Wild Cats: Travels and Researches in the Gold-Fields of Western Australia and New Zealand by Raymond Radclyffe, 1898.

"Mountains that reach to heaven are covered with eternal snows," from Songs of Near and Far Away, illustrated and written by Emmeline Richardson, 1900.

From Punch magazine, 1866.

From Memories of the Months by Hume Nisbet, 1889.

Atmospheric electrical discharges often get demonized, but they're sparked by an angel: "Nang Make Kala, an angel who causes lightning."  From Five Years in Siam from 1891 to 1896 by Herbert Warington Smyth, 1898.

From Echoes of Old County Life by John Kersley Fowler, 1892.

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.