1816: the year without a summer

We might joke that you can blink and miss the English summer, but what if it really was cancelled this year?
Two hundred years ago, in 1816, people in England and much of Europe were bemused by a summer that was noticeably colder and wetter than usual. This was bad news for a society that depended largely on a good harvest for its wellbeing. It was even worse news for nations ravaged by the recent Napoleonic wars...
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Published on May 11, 2016 08:21
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