200 Years since the year without a Summer

All summer cold weather records since the formation of the U.S. weather bureau are eclipsed by that of the year 1816, which has been handed down as "A Year without a Summer."

The year 1816 was known throughout the United States and Europe as tho coldest ever experienced by any person then living. Transcripts of old diaries, of that year, which have been published, tell of men ploughing in July  with overcoats and mittens on in Connecticut. Snow fell in Vermont in June to the depth of ten inches and a seven inch fall in the interior of New York State and Massachusetts was noted. July came in with snow and ice.

On the 4th of July, ice as think as window glass formed throughout New England, New York and in some parts of the State of Pennsylvania.
Indian corn, which in some parts of the East had struggled through May and June, gave up, froze and died. To the surprise of everybody, August proved the worst month of all. Almost every green thing in this country and Europe was blasted with frost.

The Evening Gazette, August 5,1920