Cold summer of 1816: Difference between revisions

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The year of 1816 was one of the coldest ever known in New England. It was referred to as the "poverty year" as many crops were affected. In Salem on June 8th, there was a slight fall of snow, but it was not deep enough to go sleighing.
In the "Annals of Salem" by Felt, he writes that in 1816

there was frost and ice until June 10th and there was only three warm days in the whole month.

Scientist would come to the conclusion that the cold weather that summer was the

result of a large volcanic eruption of Mt. Tambora in the Dutch West Indies.

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-*The year of 1816 was one of the coldest ever known  in New England. It was referred to as the "poverty year" as many crops were affected. In Salem on June 8th, there was
+*The year of 1816 was one of the coldest ever known  in New England. It was referred to as the "poverty year" as many crops were affected. In Salem on June 8th, there was a slight fall of snow, but it was not deep enough to go sleighing.
-a slight fall of snow, but it was not deep enough to go
-sleighing.
 *In the "Annals of Salem" by Felt, he writes that in 1816
 there was frost and ice until June 10th and there was only