Another weather question

Mike Aylward · Jan 20, 2010

Years ago several of my older neighbors here in northeast Missouri mentioned "the year without a summer". There was snow in every month except two. I asked if one of the two was August and the answer was no, that it had indeed snowed a little bit in August that year. The trouble was that nobody could remember what year that was. Does anyone know for sure? Mike

Bspauld · Jan 20, 2010

I remember baling hay in july with a coat on except for in the mow.Must have been in the early 60s,this was in Michigan

D7fever · Jan 20, 2010

yes, don't remember it though, google it up, was around 1820, one of the big volcanoes blew, maybe Krakatoa. was a bad year for everyone.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jan 20, 2010

My dad told of being within a few days of wheat harvest in western Kansas and a freak snow (probably July) laid all of the wheat down from the weight of it. That was in the 1930s if I recall correctly.

Crop pretty well lost as they didn't have the means to pick it up back then like we do now.

Mel in SW Iowa · Jan 20, 2010

1862?

rrlund · Jan 20, 2010

I was thinking 1932 for some reason. Could easily be wrong,as usual. 1992 came close when a major volcanic eruption gave us a frost when the corn wasn't even dented. I remember the high on August 10th that year here in mid Michigan was 42 degrees,but that wasn't the year that you were looking for.
According to Paul Harvey there was a year that it snowed in July. That snow was forcasted in the Old Farmers Almanac and was what made it the most trusted and enduring of all the almanacs. The only reason for that forcast though,was that the editor got sick when he thought it was finished and ready to be published but the July forcast was missing. When he was told about it,in his exhaustion,he just said "snow". Or something pretty similar to that.

Don Hopf · Jan 20, 2010

1816 or 17. They had sheered the sheep in May and some sheep died from pnemonuia by the end of June. Crops didn't matured and rotted in the fields. This happen in the Northern Hemisphere.

I watch way to much History Channel.

Don

rrlund · Jan 20, 2010

Good thing you do. You can see that the rest of us aren't very good at this stuff.

kyplowboy · Jan 20, 2010

My great grandfather died way before my time but I have heard stories through my grandparents and my mom that he used to tell. One year when he was a teanager plowing corn with a mule in the bottoms behind my house with a coat on in June. About dark he was starting to head to the house and the temp dropped like a rock and it started snowing real hard. He took the plow off the mule and rode him home so he would get there faster. The next morning snow had drifted over the plow handles. Corn was about knee high at the time.

(Guess it was all them mule farts back in the day that caused that climate change then!)

Dave

Anonymous-0 · Jan 20, 2010

The Volcano Krakotoa blew up in 1883. The next year was known as the year without a summer. Temperature never exceeded 50 degrees F.

Jerry

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