Yesterday's Weather

An illustration from an 1853 issue of Punch magazine.

"Among the Bunnies": an illustration from an 1890 issue of Punch magazine.

On the day before yesterday, the weatherman said, "Today’s weather is different from yesterday’s. If the weather is the same tomorrow as it was yesterday, the day after tomorrow will have the same weather as the day before yesterday. But if the weather is the same tomorrow as it is today, the day after tomorrow will have the same weather as yesterday.”

It is raining today, and it rained on the day before yesterday. What was the weather like yesterday? (Note: The prediction was correct!)

An illustration from an 1898 issue of Scribner's magazine.  The caption reads: "The sense of infinity is heightened by the floating mist."

The perfect antidote to a sunny day at a crowded beach.  (These young Goths — precursors to Wednesday and Pugsley Addams? — are from Peterson's magazine, 1888.)

A pairing of quotations:

"You are the sky.  Everything else—it's just the weather."
—Pema Chödrön

"This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds.  It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and as reeds shaken by the wind."
—John Cowper Powys, Wolf Solent

An illustration from a 1900 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "I was progressing in great leaps and bounds."