Regency Trivia – Weather

As an author, I’m always checking the weather in the year my book is set. One would not, for example want to write about a nice hot summer in 1816 which was known as the Year Without Summer. Ergo, when I started my latest book set in 1819, I researched the weather and was particularly looking at air quality. For various reasons, air quality in London has been an on and off issue since the 14^th century. But it was not until the Victorian era that it came to the point that greasy black residue covered buildings and even the grass (turning it black) in Hyde Park. So, during the Regency, one could be appalled by the smell of the Thames if the wind was in the wrong quarter, and buildings became dingy from coal smoke, but there the greasy residue was not yet a problem.

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