Sentences with phrase «the year without a summer»

How about the clouds from volcanic eruptions which have caused «years without summers» (or springs).

Its eruption turned 1815 in to a «year without a summer» in Europe.

This excerpt from The Year without Summer explains why

From The Year without Summer, by William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman.

The cold, wet, and unpleasant climatic effects of the eruption led 1816 to be known as «the year without a summer,» and inspired Lord Byron to write:

The eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 was among the biggest in recent times, causing a so - called year without summer.

The theory: this would cool Earth similarly to the «year without a summer» in 1816, which followed the eruptions of Mount Tambora in what is now Indonesia, along with other volcanoes the previous year.

In particular, eruptions such the Timanfaya's in Lanzarote ─ one of the strongest in the country due its duration until 1736 and the amount of thrown material ─ and Tambora's ─ one of the biggest volcanic episodes, which led to a «year without summer» in 1816 ─ released big amounts of iron that altered the chemical composition of the annual Pyrenean tree rings.

Two years earlier, the ash from an unusually large number of major volcanic eruptions reflected so much sunlight that 1816 became known as the year without a summer.

The Year Without a Summer, also known as the Poverty Year and Eighteen hundred and froze to death, was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities destroyed crops in Northern Europe, the American Northeast and eastern Canada.

The Years Without Summer: Tracing A.D. 536 and its Aftermath (British Archaeological Reports International, Archaeopress, 2000).

A record cool summer has descended upon many parts of the U.S. after predictions of the «year without a summer.»

It launched 100 cubic kilometers of ash into the upper atmosphere, causing 1816, in many parts of the world, to be the «year without summer».

Dora Budor, «Year Without a Summer (Panton's Diversion)», Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk Why produce fiction?

Centrally placed in the dimly lit gallery (the result of Ghislaine Leung's gel - filter interventions) is Dora Budor's Year Without a Summer (Judd), 2017, which features

Indeed, if enough ash was released into the atmosphere, it is possible, not theoretically, but actually possible to cause a year without summer on the planet (it has happened before, almost 200 years ago).

Sodden thought: What would a year without a summer ala 1815 do to us in this day and age?

There is simply NO evidence of such a phenomenon in tree - ring records in the regions affected by the «year without a summer» — NW North America and Europe.

Mount Tambora in Indonesia erupted in 1815 and this was followed by an extremely cold spring and summer in 1816, which became known as «the year without a summer».

1400 — 1549 the pre-culmination period of the Little Ice Age 1550 — 1849, the culmination period which contains the «years without a summer» 1850 — 1967, the post-culmination period in which a definite retreat of glaciers and substantial atmospheric warming occurred.

2009 will be remembered as the year without a summer.

One good size volcano eruption of Tambora size can precipitate another year without summer and starvation of massive proportions on the top of already developing another Mauner minimum.

You could probably place Tambora on one of his longer term curves and get the lowdown on the year without summer.

After some recovery it fell again to -1.2 in 1815 and 1816 (the year without summer) after Tambora.

The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, a stratovolcano in Indonesia, occasioned mid-summer frosts in New York State and June snowfalls in New England and Newfoundland and Labrador in what came to be known as the «Year Without a Summer» of 1816.

1816 has been called «The Year Without a Summer», due to the severe cold which affected America and Europe that year.

The kind that produces a year without a summer, and there is a general crop failure in the northern hemisphere.

The final icing on the cake was delivered by the Indonesian volcano Tambora in 1815, which gave the world the year without a summer in 1816 (40:30).

It's not that simple, though: The massive Tambora eruption of 1815 cooled the Earth so much that Europe suffered the «year without summer,» leading to extreme food shortages.

The Tambora eruption in 1815 was at the low end of the VEI 7 classification with an estimated ejected volume of 160 cubic kilometres... and that caused the year without a summer in 1816.

This result compares well with the observed hemispheric transport of volcanic debris leading to «the year without a summer» in 1816 in the northern hemisphere after the 1815 Tambora volcano cataclysmic eruption in Indonesia in 1815.

The year 2016 marks the 200th anniversary of the year without a summer caused by the 1815 Tambora eruption.

Pfister, C. in The Year Without a Summer?

It would appear that the only reliable indices of temperature change are the occasional historical reports on weather (freezing the Thames, grapes in England, year without summer, etc).

Sunspot activity is diminishing in a manner worryingly similar to that experienced during the Maunder Minimum (1645 to 1715) when ice fairs were staged on the River Thames and the Dalton Minimum (1790 to 1830) which gave us Napoleon's retreat from Moscow and the Year Without A Summer.

As a result, Europe and North America were plunged into one of the coldest periods in modern history, a year that became known as «The Year Without a Summer.»

These did a real number on OHC, with the final cap to the LIA being Tambora and the famous» year without a summer».

Horses and draft animals were also the victims of the «Year without Summer» as they could not be fed in the great numbers that had been used.

In fact, the year without a summer is now believed to have been one major catalyst in the westward expansion of the United States.

The cloud of ash and sulfur dioxide caused the Year Without Summer in 1816, a year so cold that crops failed around the world, causing massive famine.

Secondly, the 1810s were affected greatly by the eruption of Tambora in 1815 and another big eruption in 1809 — these caused widespread crop failures (1816 was the «year without a summer» — Henry Stommel wrote a great book on this).

1816 became known as the Year Without Summer (see the Discovery Channel here).

The year without summer also inspired writers: Did Climate Change Inspire Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

Look up «Year Without a Summer» for its impact (Dalton Minimum, 1816).

Furious volcanic blasts have been historically associated with climate change: an eruption of Mt Tambora in what is now Indonesia in 1815 was followed by Europe's notorious «year without a summer» in 1816, along with widespread harvest failure, famine and outbreaks of disease.

In 1992 we organized a conference titled, The Year Without a Summer?

In the 1970s the Little Ice Age, and the «Year Without a Summer» following the 1815 Tambora eruption, were known.

1816 is widely referred to as «The Year Without a Summer» because volcanic activity the year before triggered such a significant decrease in global temperatures that many areas of the world had frost and snow throughout their spring and summer seasons.

Not exact matches

It has been an unusual summer... first the cold wet start of it and then the heat and then storms... seems I had to run around and unplug everything every week or so... just disruptive to our regular routine... but we got the hay up without a drop of rain on it... so our record is now 5 years in a row of putting up good hay.

It's funny because I rarely go through a holiday without thinking of my grandma's fruit salad - a recipe no one has made in years and I may have to try and revive this summer - and the dish that I drooled over as a kid: Rice and raisins.