The late spring of 1992, after the Pinatubo emission, was absurdly cold.(1) In New York City the normal month to month temperatures from March through June that year were every one of the one to two degrees beneath typical. In July, the normal temperature was 2.5 degrees colder than regular. My young little girls barely had an opportunity to utilize our condo building's swimming pool. The shorelines we frequented in New Jersey and southern New England were entirely pointless, as well. In the end my significant other and I chose to make a very late trek to Florida to make sure we could discover some water sufficiently warm to hop into.
I thought at the time that we were encountering a downsized variant of what the Year Without a Summer probably been similar to. That late spring, in 1816, low temperatures and late ices murdered products all through northern Europe, the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. Snow fell in June in Albany and Quebec City. Waterways and lakes solidified as far south as Pennsylvania. Researchers today trust the fundamental driver of that chilly climate was the emission of Indonesia's Mount Tambora in 1815. So it was not without reason that I began to stress that the late spring of 2011 may be a frosty one. Luckily, it appears to be impossible that the 2010 emissions of Eyjafjallajökull and Merapi will have the same climatic impacts as the 1815 ejection of Tambora, or even the 1991 emission of Pinatubo.
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