The ash cloud spread across the atmosphere, blocked sunlight, and altered weather patterns around the world.
One volcano erupted in Indonesia.
The whole world paid the price.
History remembers 1816 as "The Year Without a Summer." 🌋
In America and parts of Europe, June is supposed to be summer.
The kind of weather where people expect sunshine, warmer temperatures, and longer days.
So imagine their shock when they woke up one morning in June 1816 and found snow outside.
What they didn't know was that the cause was thousands of miles away.
A year earlier, Mount Tambora in Indonesia had erupted in one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in recorded history.