Jamestown+Weather





"The early Jamestown settlers realized that weather in their new land was very different than weather in England, their homeland. Summer in England had little humidity and few bugs. Summer in Jamestown, with tropical humidity and oppressively high temperatures, bred mosquitoes and biting flies. And winters, as the settlers soon discovered, were as cold as the summers were hot.

 The heat of summer did not last; the colonists were greeted by a severe winter in 1607-1608. The harsh conditions were compounded by the fact that they also had to endure one of the worst droughts in nearly 800 years."