The Year Without a Summer
One day of summer Wednesday and we're back to cold and rain of winter
Mr Sandman : .[Spoiler (click to open)]Goldilocks and the three snowmen
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global
temperatures to decrease by 0.4-0.7 °C (0.7-1 °F). Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between
the years of 1766 and 2000. This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.
In the early 1800s German landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich shows the contrast of before and after the volcanic
eruption. Caspar David Friedrich's pieces The Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808-10) and Two Men by the Sea (1817) are clear
examples of this shift of mood.
Caspar David Friedrich's The Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808-10) blue skies before the volcano
Caspar David Friedrich Two Men by the Sea (1817) sepia world after the volcano
Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of
Mount Tambora in April in the Dutch East Indies (known today as Indonesia). This eruption was the largest in at least
1,300 years (after the hypothesized eruption causing the volcanic winter of 536); its effect in the climate may have been
exacerbated by the 1814 eruption of Mayon in the Philippines. via
Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer Above the Sea Fog
Lord Byron was inspired to write the poem "Darkness", by a single day when "the fowls all went to roost at noon
and candles had to be lit as at midnight". The imagery in the poem is starkly similar to the conditions of the
Year Without a Summer :
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went-and came, and brought no day
. Poetry
dr. π (pi)
.
Mr Sandman : .[Spoiler (click to open)]Goldilocks and the three snowmen
The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global
temperatures to decrease by 0.4-0.7 °C (0.7-1 °F). Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between
the years of 1766 and 2000. This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.
In the early 1800s German landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich shows the contrast of before and after the volcanic
eruption. Caspar David Friedrich's pieces The Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808-10) and Two Men by the Sea (1817) are clear
examples of this shift of mood.
Caspar David Friedrich's The Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808-10) blue skies before the volcano
Caspar David Friedrich Two Men by the Sea (1817) sepia world after the volcano
Evidence suggests that the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of
Mount Tambora in April in the Dutch East Indies (known today as Indonesia). This eruption was the largest in at least
1,300 years (after the hypothesized eruption causing the volcanic winter of 536); its effect in the climate may have been
exacerbated by the 1814 eruption of Mayon in the Philippines. via
Caspar David Friedrich Wanderer Above the Sea Fog
Lord Byron was inspired to write the poem "Darkness", by a single day when "the fowls all went to roost at noon
and candles had to be lit as at midnight". The imagery in the poem is starkly similar to the conditions of the
Year Without a Summer :
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars
Did wander darkling in the eternal space,
Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth
Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;
Morn came and went-and came, and brought no day
. Poetry
dr. π (pi)
.