In 1816, America experienced the most unusual weather event in history. That year eventually became known as "The Year Without a Summer". In June, a great blizzard occurred in the northeastern United States, and ice formed on ponds four times that summer. Many valuable food crops were totally destroyed, and most New England farmers were forced to slaughter their farm animals in order to avoid starvation.
The winter of 1815-1816 started off with the largest hurricane ever to hit New England in the 19th century. Many New Englanders had just barely finished repairing the storm damage to their homes and property when they were also struck with one of the worst winters in recorded history. By spring, most New Englanders were anxiously waiting for winter to loosen its harsh grip on their land. But spring that year was unusually late, and for some unknown reason, the winter cold was refusing to release its its grip on the New England landscape. Many people had also noticed that there was an eerie corona around the moon each night, and also a constant haze in the sky that just wouldn't go away. As summer grew closer, many people were becoming concerned that something was very wrong. It wasn't that the days weren't warm, in fact some days it was downright hot. But every night the temperature would drop suddenly, and by morning there would be a heavy frost on the ground.
Then, on June 6th, a strange thing happened. It began to snow. It snowed very slowly at first, but by the following morning it was snowing much harder, and by that evening, all of New England was in the grip of a full-blown blizzard. Four days later, New Englanders opened their doors to snow drifts over two feet high in many places. All the way up and down the Appalachian Mountain chain from Canada to Pennsylvania, it seemed that the US had suffered a major snow and ice storm. It was a frightening sight to behold. All over the Northeast, the carcases of hundreds of thousands of birds that had died from cold and lack of food, lay strewn everywhere across the New England landscape. The same fate was also visited upon insects, and millions of them now lay dead or dying everywhere across the newly fallen blanket of snow. Many newborn spring lambs were also succumbing to the cold, and even adult sheep, having just been freshly shorn, could no longer defend themselves against the lethal temperatures. The high temperature on many days hovered at only 30 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and the crops in most farmer's fields had been totally destroyed by the frost and ice. Killing frosts were recorded on June 10th, July 9th, August 13th, and all through the summer. Many New England farmers were now looking forward to a summer of starvation. Never before had there been a summer like this one.
But why did this terrible weather event occur? Was it due to the 1815 explosion of the Mount Tambora volcano in the Dutch East Indies? Was it due to the lowest recorded sunspot activity in centuries? Or did it occur for an entirely different reason? To learn the hidden secret behind this strange prophetic weather anomaly, and learn the truth about what really caused "The Year Without a Summer," click on the link below and order your copy of Edward Oliver's new 350-page book "Prophets and Frauds."
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