The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGM0NT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1913. THE WEATHER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 26, 5 June 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1913. THE WEATHER.

Thai tho weather of the world is getting worse as tho world grows older is asserted and believed by some people who allegedly have made a study of tliis sort of thing. There are, however, many who believe otherwise, and one writer in “T.P.’s Weekly,” intent upon knocking out the fallacy, so far as England is concerned, puts forward numerous extracts from Evelyn’s Diary to show that the seasons were just as erratic in their behaviour as they are now. Ju June, 1658, the diarist observes: “An extraordinary storm of bail and rain, the season as cold as winter—the wind northerly near six months.” Jn August, which convention would make out hot and still, there occurred “a tempestuous wind which threw down my greatest trees at Saves Park, and did much mischief all over England, destroying all our winter fruit.” Eighteen hundred and sixty-throe had a very poor summer, described as: “A most extraordinary wet and cold season.” In 1696 wo come across the following entries: “April 23rd—an extraordinary wet spring. Juno 24—A very wet hay harvest and little summer as yet. October 31—A very wet and uncomfortable season.” Apparently there was little to choose between tho four seasons of the year 1693. According to this source sixteen hundred and ninetyfive was another year of unseasonable severity. Several entries testify to a prolonged and bitter frost and a late spring, while June was “a very wet season.” The following spring began with promise, but turned into

“an exceedingly rainy, cold, unseason-j able summer,” July being characterised by “continual and impetuous rain,” which changed the weather

“into perfect winter.” September! smiled, hut October relapsed into “un-j seasonable stormy weather and on till seed-time.” Nevertheless people will persist in referring to the “good old times” and \ddh them the better weather that then prevailed. Truth to tell, it has always been as variable as wo moderns find it to-day.