The Year Without a Summer
June 1816: snow on Vermont's corn. A volcano on the other side of the planet did it.
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Visuals are AI reconstructions; research & narration by Eli. Sources in the pinned comment.
Volcano Week · Ep. 1. Next: Lisbon 1755, the sea disappeared.
Sources and further reading are listed in the full story: The Year Without a Summer: How Tambora’s 1815 Eruption Froze 1816
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The Year Without a Summer: How Tambora’s 1815 Eruption Froze 1816
In April 1815 Mount Tambora produced the largest eruption in recorded history. A year later, summer never arrived — snow fell in June and crops failed across the Northern Hemisphere.
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