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The Year Without a Summer
The 1800s fell at the end of a relative cool snap that lasted around the world for almost 500 years, starting in 1400 and ending in around 1860. 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. The volcano was not on an uninhabited island.