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1816, the Year Without a Summer

In Our Time

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The Effect of the Eruption on the Global Wind System

In 1815, she's rather a good harvest. But 1816 is much more serious. You have cold and rain through the spring. The growing season is much reduced. And then you get things like frosts through June and July and August. There is snow in the middle of the summer. So these are even some direct relation of that to this eruption. We're talking about a big social tectonic shift in Europe at that time. Well, it would be difficult. I'm not the volcanologist or the meteorologist. I can't, as it were, give you direct relief.

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