Year Without a Summer
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Sep 30, 2026
Alex GendlerNARRATOR
Meanwhile, New England was blanketed by a strange fog that would not disperse as the ground remained frozen well into June.
Alex GendlerNARRATOR
In what came to be known as the year without a summer, some thought the apocalypse had begun, a mood captured in Lord Byron's poem, Darkness.
Alex GendlerNARRATOR
I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
Alex GendlerNARRATOR
The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars did wander darkling in the eternal space, rayless and pathless, and the icy earth swung blind and blackening in the moonless air.
Carter RoyGUEST
It is gonna get pretty bad.
Connor TomlinsonGUEST
Do you know which year a volcano canceled summer, caused a global famine, and also gave us Frankenstein and the bicycle? That year was 1816, also known as the Year Without a Summer.
Connor TomlinsonGUEST
It's amazing.
Connor TomlinsonGUEST
It's fascinating.
Connor TomlinsonGUEST
Like, how something terrible can lead to something good in the end.
Carter RoyGUEST
Yeah, and the Year Without a Summer, that just seems like... [laughs] Seasons are such a part of life we expect.
Carter RoyGUEST
It's crazy to think of just, like, a season not happening.
Carter RoyGUEST
Can you imagine life without a summer?
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Connor TomlinsonHOST
Do you know which year a volcano canceled summer, caused a global famine, and also gave us Frankenstein and the bicycle? That year was 1816, also known as the Year Without a Summer.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
It's amazing.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
It's fascinating.
Connor TomlinsonHOST
Like, how something terrible can lead to something good in the end.
Carter RoyHOST
Yeah, and a year without a summer.
Carter RoyHOST
That just seems like, [laughs] seasons are such a part of life we expect.
Carter RoyHOST
It's crazy to think of just, like, a season not happening.
RalphHOST
In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted in what is now Indonesia.
RalphHOST
The following year became known as the year without a summer.
RalphHOST
Crops failed.
RalphHOST
Food prices surged.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The eruption of Mount Tambora in eighteen fifteen left a clear chemical signature in ice cores from both Greenland and Antarctica at opposite ends of the planet.
speaker_2NARRATOR
That eruption contributed to the Year Without a Summer in eighteen sixteen, when snow fell in June in parts of New England and crops failed across the Northern Hemisphere.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The cold, dark summer of eighteen sixteen is said to have inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein while she was staying indoors near Lake Geneva, kept inside by the relentless rain and gloom.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Snow plays a crucial role in the water cycle by acting as a natural reservoir that stores water during winter and releases it slowly during spring melt.
MomHOST
temperatures drop.
MomHOST
1816 became known as the year without a summer.
MomHOST
Harvests failed across Europe and North America.
MomHOST
Food prices soared.
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DanielHOST
In April 1815, Mount Tambora erupted.
DanielHOST
one of the most powerful eruptions in recorded history.
DanielHOST
Volcanic gases formed particles high in the atmosphere that reflected sunlight and cooled the climate, making 1816 the year without a summer across much of the northern hemisphere.
DanielHOST
You told me that harvests failed and food prices soared.
Keith HoctonHOST
1817 will bring recovery.
Keith HoctonHOST
He actually has no way of knowing that the year that he's living through will be remembered as the year without summer.
Keith HoctonHOST
Or that his descendants will tell stories about 1800 that froze to death.
Keith HoctonHOST
He only knows at this stage that he's hungry.
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