Many of you perhaps may have heard about this rather strange weather in 1816 and my apology if this topic has been covered prior to this post. While doing research on another topic I ran across this topic by accident. Many times I seem to be the last to know in these rare stories.

Snow fell in Albany, New York in June and ice was observed in the lakes and rivers as far south as Pennsylvania in July and August. 1816 has also been called the poverty year because of the loss of crops in the United States. The weather also affected Europe as well.

My first thoughts were those of little boys not being able to enjoy the summer such as Lincoln, Davis, and Robert E. Lee. Former President Thomas Jefferson went into further debt because of crop failure due to the weather of 1816 in Virginia.

I don't know how the weather played a role in the deep South in relation to King Cotton in states such as Georgia but rather suspect the cotton states did not see normal high humid heat. Alabama and Mississippi would enter the Union on 1817 and 1819. Vermont lost an estimated 10,000 people the following year due to migration as the weather in New England was too bad even for some of the most hardened Yankees. In 1816 young Abraham Lincoln moved to Indiana which became a state in 1816 with his family. The cadets of West Point must have also been affected by the weather especially those of southern states.

Some Indians may have felt they were being punished for their forced treaties with the United States. Some of the above information was taken from Wikipedia concerning this event. More than 100 years later scientists discovered the reason for the Year Without a Summer. I suppose it could be another argument against global warming.