By David M. Ludlum (auth.)
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27 at Salem. 1749 Middle Colonies and New England, June 29: Famous Hot Sunday; Benjamin Franklin's thermometer reached 100°F (38°C); "a hot, burning season" in Massachusetts; young Ezra Stiles preached his first sermon that day. 1749 Middle Atlantic Coast, Oct. 18-19: Strong hurricane caused havoc among coastal shipping; 8 vessels lost on Ocracoke Island; tide in Chesapeake Bay rose 15 feet, inundating Norfolk and Annapolis; 7 ships ashore on Martha's Vineyard. 17 52 South Carolina, Sept. 15: "The Great Hurricane of 17 52"; most destructive in Charleston's history; tide rose 10 feet above normal high water, bay and river almost joined; shift of wind with passage of center saved city from complete inundation; all ships but one in harbor driven ashore; plantations suffered severely.
Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Feb. 21-22: 19°F (-7°C) at Charleston with heavy snowfall, "greatest ever known"; ship off St. " Atlantic seaboard, Sept. 2-3: Independence Hurricane; strong tropical storm took inland path from North Carolina to central Pennsylvania; southeast winds caused highest tide known on Delaware River; much damage to shipping. South Carolina and Georgia, Dec. 23: The Snow Campaign; snowfall of 18 to 24 inches impeded soldiers in first skirmishes of war in South; cold, snowy winter followed.
A cold front with showers had moved through on the fourteenth and was now well out into the Atlantic. A northwesterly flow of polar air from Canada followed - the afternoon reading at Salem on the fifteenth, which would approximate the maximum for the day, was only 67°F (19°C). Winds were west on the sixteenth with the afternoon reading at 72°F (22°C) - the weather "very fair" on both the sixteenth and seventeenth as stable air conditions dominated the area. Sometime during the afternoon of the seventeenth, when the battle was raging, the winds backed farther into the southwest and by next morning into the south, indicating the eastward passage of the high-pressure ridge and a gradual falling off of barometric pressure.