42 
WIND IN 1771. 
S. S.W. N. & E. N.E. 
January - 
& w. 
5 
N.W. 
13 
& S.E. 
13 
February - 
6 
6 
16 
March 
3 
9 
19 
April 
5 
7 
16 
May 
- 14 
2 
15 
June 
5 
7 
18 
July 
- 12 
12 
7 
August 
8 
18 
5 
September 
3 
5 
22 
October - 
- 20 
8 
3 
November 
- 15 
14 
1 
December 
- 21 
2 
8 
117 
103 
143 
1772 was another backward spring. January was a very cold 
and snowy month. February. Cold, with frequent snow and 
frost. March was a very cold and uncomfortable month, with 
frequent and heavy falls of snow. April to the 20th often cold 
rains, and much snow on the 18th, and some on 19th. May-day 
like Christmas, and to 16th easterly winds, with frosty nights. 
All May very cold. The wind 92 days E., N.E., or S.E., during 
the five months. 
1784. A very severe winter and spring. “ January . 2nd 
Thermometer 8 ; 9th near 7 ; 11th + 7, viz. 25 Far. ; 21st Th. 12 of 
Lin + 17 of Ear. The whole, severest month I have known.” 
February. “Except 25th or 26th, all frost and snow.” Snow 
15 in. deep on 10th. “I found snowdrops flowered under the 
snow.” 19th snow 16 in. deep. March. “The most snow I 
ever knew.” 2nd, rooks build, yet many, roads impassable in Nor- 
folk, 27th, last three days snow all day, and above a week ; Ther- 
mometer 4 below frost, and the last day [31st] the old snow 
remained, and the new 6 in. deep on the plain. April, still more 
snow ; “ the snow of the 24th of last December laid on the 17th 
of April at Gunthorpe, viz., 115 days at Bixenhill. I presume 
this is the severest season felt in England this century.” May “a 
seasonable fine month.” 
