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Showing posts with label year without summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label year without summer. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 September 2016

7th September 1816: Weather report from Lancaster

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The Lancaster Gazette of Saturday 7th September 1816 carried a report about the weather: The weather, since our last, has been uncommonly ...
Tuesday, 26 July 2016

26th July 1816: Weather report from the Leicester Journal

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THE WEATHER—The continuance of the present very unseasonable weather has been attended with most baneful effects in various parts of the co...
Wednesday, 13 July 2016

13th July 1816: Report on the weather in the Leeds Mercury

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The Weather .—The oldest man living does not recollect such unseasonable weather as we have lately experienced. But this is the case not on...
Monday, 6 June 2016

6th June 1816: Snow falls on Pendle Hill, Lancashire

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The Derby Mercury of 4th July 1816 reported on the weather, highlighting how cold it was in 1816 on the verge of summer: Pendle Hill was c...
Wednesday, 18 May 2016

18th May 1816: Snow on the hills around Lancaster

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The Lancaster Gazette of  Saturday 18th May 1816 reported the unseasonable weather lately experienced in the north of England: In the latt...
Sunday, 21 February 2016

21st February 1816: More remarks about the severity of the Winter

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The Bury & Norwich Post of Wednesday 21st February 1816 carried a report about the weather in the 'year without summer': A Cor...
Wednesday, 17 February 2016

17th February 1816: Weather report from Bradford

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The Leeds Mercury of Saturday 17th February 1816 carried a local report about the increasingly cold weather being experienced in the 'ye...
Monday, 15 February 2016

15th February 1816: Weather report from Derby

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The Derby Mercury of Thursday 15th February 1816 contained a weather report about the very cold conditions being experienced so far in the ...
Monday, 8 February 2016

8th February 1816: Temperature of minus 12 Fahrenheit recorded in Leeds

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On Saturday 10th February 1816, the Leeds Mercury carried this brief article about the extent of the severity of the winter weather recorded...
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Friday, 10 April 2015

How the press reported the news of the Tambora eruption

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In the days before the invention and widespread use of the electric telegraph, international news travelled very slowly indeed - basically, ...

10th April 1815: The eruption of Mount Tambora intensifies

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The Mount Tambora Caldera today (NASA Earth Observatory via Wikimedia Commons ). Prior to the explosion, Mount Tambora was 14,000 ft high,...
Sunday, 5 April 2015

5th April 1815: The eruption of Mount Tambora

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On Wednesday 5th April 1815, at Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies, what would become the largest observed vo...