Year Without a Summer

1816: The Year Without a Summer

Highlights the effects -- such as food shortages and riots -- of the strange weather in 1816 around the world in countries including Canada, the United States, Ireland, Britain, France, Switzerland, and Asia. - 1816: The Year Without a Summer

http://www.dandantheweatherman.com/Bereklauw/yearnosummer.html

1816: The Year Without a Summer New Hampshire

Subtitled "A New Hampshire Perspective," this web site recounts the shock waves sent out from the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia and caused devastation in the New England state of New Hampshire. - 1816: The Year Without a Summer New Hampshire

http://wermenh.com/1816.html

The Year Without a Summer 1816

Provides a discourse of the Year without a Sumer, beginning with the 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora. Delves into the effects on New England where there was frost on numerous nights and the population began to dwindle as farmers moved westward in order to stay alive. - The Year Without a Summer 1816

http://maureen-k-fleury.suite101.com/the-year-without-a-summer-1816-a54675

The Year Without a Summer 1816, In Maine

Provides the perspective of those in Maine in the summer of 1816, including the fact that there was a foot of snow on the ground and the temperatures were routinely quite a bit below freezing. Contains excerpts from the diary of someone in Fryeburg, Maine, and descriptions of what it was like that summer. - The Year Without a Summer 1816, In Maine

http://www.milbridgehistoricalsociety.org/previous/no_summer.html

The Year Without a Summer Lecture and Slide Show

This website and slide show presentation recounts the eruption of the stratavolcano in Sumbawa, Indonesia and what happened because of it half a world away. It also delves into what the author says are two other factors, the weak magnetic activity and the shifting of the sun's position within the solar system. - The Year Without a Summer Lecture and Slide Show

http://www.historylecture.org/yearwithoutasummer.html