Snow in June, Cold, and Darkness. There Was a Year when Summer Never Came.
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In the 21st century, we most often talk about climate anomalies related to global warming. However, we often fail to realize that extreme weather phenomena have occurred before. This was the case, for example, at the end of the 1820s, when the effects of the eruption of Mount Tambora led to a rapid cooling in the northern hemisphere. The first signs of increased activity at Mount Tambora (present-day Indonesia) were recorded as early as 1812, an…
Snow in June and a purple sky – 210 years ago, there was a year without summer. If it weren't for it, we might not have had the story of Frankenstein, or discovered the taste of potatoes. In the 21st century, climate anomalies related to global warming are most often discussed. However, we often fail to realize that extreme phenomena. The article "June 21st is the first day of summer, but there was a year when summer didn't arrive; it snowed in …
210 years ago, the world was plunged into darkness—literally and figuratively. Although June 21st marks the first day of summer, there was a year when summer never arrived. In 1816, snow fell in June, the sky turned purple, and famine and epidemics took a deadly toll from America to Europe. It was then that vampire legends were born, the idea for the novel "Frankenstein" was conceived, and the potato became a permanent fixture on Polish tables. …
The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, the largest documented volcanic eruption in human history, killed approximately 90,000 people directly and produced the year without a summer in 1816, a climate disruption that caused famine across the Northern Hemisphere, may have triggered the first global cholera pandemic, and produced the cold dark summer at Lake Geneva during which Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein
On the evening of 5 April 1815, the residents of Java and surrounding Indonesian islands heard what they believed were cannon shots in the distance. British colonial administrators dispatched troops to investigate, assuming a naval engagement was underway somewhere offshore. The sounds were heard as far away as Sumatra, more than 2,000 kilometres from their source, and continued intermittently for five days. They were not cannon shots. They were…
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