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SYMHC Classics: Year Without a Summer

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Long Winter and the Volcano

The year without a summer prompted people to start making more routine observances and recordings of weather conditions. The first published weather forecasts came out in the US in 1849. "I was not expecting all of the famines and deaths," says Laura Ingalls Wilder, who wrote last time about this time of year.

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