XX. Extract of a register of the barometer, thermometer, and rain, at Lyndon, in Rutland, 1775

The year began favourable, the winter was mild and not in general wet; there was indeed a pretty deal of rain the first half of February, but the latter part of that month was warm and forwarding, and the spring continued to advance from that time with much fewer frosty mornings and N.E. winds than there frequently are at that season, the many strong Westerly winds keeping them back. The seed-time was fine, and the season good for corn. There were Northerly winds the former part of April, but they were not sharp ones; and the latter part of the month was hot, some days more so than in the height of summer.