Posted on 04/22/2014 7:29:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In their excellent book, The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History, William and Nicholas Klingaman relate the history, causes, and effects of the record cold that gripped the northern hemisphere in 1816. For most in America, Europe, and Asia, the winter of 1815-1816 was the coldest in living memory. What followed in the spring and summer of that year was equally disastrous. It was an entire year of cold rains, crop failures, hunger, and economic collapse.
There were multiple causes for the extreme weather of 1816, but all of them were natural, not man-made. Chief among them, according to the Klingamans, was the massive eruption of Tamboro in present-day Indonesia. The force of the explosion was ten times greater than that of Krakatoa, which took place in 1883. Heightened volcanic activity sent ash particles into the atmosphere, blocking sunlight and disrupting the northern hemispheric jet stream. One after another, polar vortexes dropped south, not just in the winter, but throughout 1816, and to a lesser extent for years afterward.
My prediction of a “year without summer” is based partly on the record of 1816 and other years of increased volcanic activity. Like 1815, 2013 saw significant volcanic activity, with major eruptions in Indonesia, Alaska, Italy, Argentina, and Japan. It was inevitable that this "particularly eventful year" of volcanic activity would be followed by a cold winter,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Wake me up in October. We will have data by then rather than speculation.
It’s warm and dry in the plains states this year. A few degrees cooler and a lot more rain this summer would do us some good.
RE: Joe Bastardi
This is one bastard(i) I like :)
If libs want consistent weather they should move to the moon, no air, hot for 15 days followed by cold for 15 more days.....
The weather forcasting for the moon is easy.
Living there is not and that is why libs should move there...
That would be fine with me-—I hate summer.
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As of now though, there is no volcanic eruption anywhere near Tambora that could cause a Year without a summer.
This winter was like the winter of 1977. That year there was a killer heat wave in the summer in the Northeast.
Also there is a strong El Nino possibly coming. Unfortunately, it may allow the fraudsters to “adjust” their numbers to make 2014 or 2015 the warmest year on record ending the pause.
But you know you can never have a good restaurant on the moon... no atmosphere. ;- )
The MAIN THESIS of the whole article - at the END of the article.
Frankly, I could have been satisfied without the tortuous and painful path of sifting through historical imaginational drivel of prior works. What happened? Did Folks have a deadline and a word count to meet?
Blah blah blah....Not that I disagree that weather is mighty strange these days (that’s been said all my life). The little ice age that hit in the lat 1700s is well documented and has been written about as being cyclic. For awhile now true climatologists (not just mouth breathers who repeat hockey stick nonsense) have been warning of a cooling trend that is not good.
But the averages are really great ;)
Everybody should have some long term food storage and a garden they can live outta of if they had to.
One thing for sure when we have summer frosts, the bugs all die early and the moose are more active; some good outcomes to a cold summer.
This will be interesting.
The Old Farmers Almanac is calling for a warmer drier summer here in the northern midwest, after beating the .gov climate folks this past winter.
OFA called for a bitterly cold winter, and the .gov folks said it would be a warmer winter.
Now, we will see what summer brings, and who is better at reading the entrails.
“This winter was like the winter of 1977. That year there was a killer heat wave in the summer in the Northeast.”
Plebe Summer at Annapolis that year. They were rolling midshipmen suffering from dehydration out of Bancroft Hall almost every night. Strange as it may seem that was when the effects seemed to kick-in — right around “Lights-Out”.
Come morning Roll Call it was so “All Present & Accounted For with X number at Walter Reed (and or Bethesda).
As an added bonus, the otherwise friendly locals would hang them for dealing drugs.
Where in the Northeast? I lived in Binghamton, NY in 1977...rained all summer and cool...both 76 and 77. Winters of 76-77 and 77-78 were numbingly cold...I know; I had to deliver newspapers in that cold. Summer of 78 was pleasant, summer of 79 was not too warm or cold; just right. Summer of 80 was HOT!...Summer of 81 was coolish, summer of 82 started warmish but cooled early...Summer 83 started warm after a very long winter, very short spring,hot weather but cool from mid june ‘till early July, then it was blast furnace heat from July all the way to 10/1 when a line of thunderstorms knocked down trees in Binghamton and fall abruptly started in earnest!
Most long-term predictions on the weather are wrong. I’m assuming this one is too.
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