The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-10-08
4 rEAn wIrHoUr Z summEn.

A correspondent of the Boston Globe writes
being remarkable in its characteristics, have
gathered for your readers some remarkable
facts of the year 1916, known as ssthe year
without summer" Few persons now living
can recollect it, but it was the coolest ever
known throughout Europe and America. The
following is brief abstract of the weather
during each month of the year:
January was very mild so much so as to
render fires almost needless in parlors De
cember previous was very cold.
February was not very cold With the ex-
eeption of few days it was mild like its
predecessor.
March was cold and boisterous during the
first part of it; the remainder was mild. A
great freshet on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers
caused great loss of property
April began warm, but grew colder as the
month advanced, and ended with snow and
spring.
May was more remarkable for frowns than
smiles. Buds and fruits were frozen; corn
killed, and the fields again and again re-
planted, until deemed too late.
June was the coolest ever known in the
latitude. Frost, ice and snow were common.
Fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the
depth of ten inches in Vermont, several in
Maine, three in the interior of New York,
and also in Massachusetts,. Considerable
damage was done at New Orleans in conse-
quence of the rapid rise of the river. The
suburbs were covered with water, and the
roads were only passable with boats.
July was accompanied by frost and ice. On
the 9th ice was formed of the thickness of a
common window glass throughout New Eng
land, New York and some parts of Penn
sylvania. Indian corn was nearly all de-
stroyed; some favorably situated fields escaped.
This was true of some of the hill farms of
Massachusetts,
August was more cheerless, If possible, than
the-summer months already passed. Ice was
formed half an inch thick. Indian corn was
so frozen that the greater part was cut down
and dried for fodder Almost ever green
thing was destroyed both in this country and
in Europe Papers received from England
state "that it would be remembered by the
present generation that the year 1916 was a
year in which there was no SUMMER Very
little corn ripened in the New England and
Middle States. Farmers supplied themselves
from the corn produced in 1915 for the seed of
the spring of 1877, 1t sold at from four to
five dollars per bushel.
September furnished about two weeks of
the mildest weather of the season. Soon after
the middle it became very cold and frosty
ice formed quarter of an inch thick
October produced more than its share of
cold weather, frost and ice in common.
November was cold and clustering. Snow
fell so as to make good sleighing.
December was mild and comfortable.
The above is a brief summary of "the
cold summer of 1876" as it was called, in
order to distinguish it from the cold season.
The winter was mild. Frost and ice were
common in every month of the year. Very
little vegetation matured in the Eastern and
Middle States. The suns rays seemed to be
destitute of heat throughout the summer all
nature was clad in sable hue and men ex-
hibited no little anxiety concerning the future
of this life.