Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1903-12-09
YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER
Such Was the Remarkable Rec.
ord of the Year 1916


!, ord of the Year 1916
Boston Glo6e
While every oneis speaking of tn,
present season as being remarkabl
IN Its characteristics, / have gath.
cred for your readers some reliable
Facts of the year 1915, known al
"the year without a summer ~
Few persons now living can recol-
lect it, but it was the coolest ever
known through Europe and Amer
lea. The following is n brief
abstract of the weather during each
month of the year.
January was mild, so much so as
to render fires almost needless in
parlors. December previous was
very cold.
February was not very cold with
the exception of few days it was
mild, like its predecessor.
March was cold and boisterous
during the first part Of it; the re-
mainder was mild. A great freshet
on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers
caused a great loss Of property.
April began warm, but grew
colder as the month advanced,
and ended with snow and ice and
temperature more like winter
than spring.
May was more remarkable for
frowns than smiles. Buds and
fruits were frozen; ice formed half
an inch thick; corn killed, and
fields again and again replanted
until deemed too late.
June was the coolest ever known |
in this latitude. Frost, ice and |
snow were common. Almost every
green thing killed. Fruit nearly
all destroyed. Snow fell to the
depth of ten inches in Vermont,
several in Maine, three in the in.
terror of New York, and also in
Massachusetts,. Considerable dam
age was done at New Orleans in
consequence of the rapid rise in
The river. The suburbs were
covered with water, and the roads
we're only passable with boats.
July was accompanied by frost
md ice. On the 9Th ice was
ormed of the thickness of a COM
non window glass throughout ,
New England, New York and some ,
,arts of Pennsylvania. Indian
orn was nearly all destroyed,
ONE. favorably situated fields es- ,
aped. This was true of some +
f the hill farms of Massachusetts,. /;
August was more cherries, il +
ossible, than the summer months r
lready passed. Ice was formed n
alf an inch thick. Indian corn
as so frozen that the greater part o.
it was cut down and dried for "
)dder. Almost every green thing =
as destroyed, both in this coun- g g
y and in Europe. Papers re- 9
lived from England state "that .
would be remembered by the ~ -
resent generation that the year - ;;
'l6 was year in which there e. e.
as no summer" Very little corn :.
pened in the New England and q
iddle States. Farmers supplied ~
emselves from corn produced in =:
is for the need Of the spring of g
II. 1t sold at from 81 to IS a e .,
Ishel. oe
furnished about two M =.
,eks of the mildest weather of ="
e season. Soon after the middle
became very cold and frosty; at
, formed quarter of an inch III
lex. of
October produced more than its n
are Of cold weather Frost and ice DE
re common. or
was cold and buster W
:. Snow fell so as to make good bu
ighing. W
December was unusually mild lr
1 comfortable. Nj
The above is a brief summary Of lie
ne cold summer of 1885, as it mo
$ called, in order to distinguish Ia
from the cold season. The sol
tier was mild. Frost and ice Ne
re common in every month of De
year. Very little vegetation ton
tured in the Eastern and Mid
States. The suns rays seemed -,
De destitute of heat throughout l
summer; all nature was clad mill
/ sable hue, and men exhibited prin
little anxiety concerning the ntte
IRE of this life. wea
he average wholesale price Of only
r during that year in the ston
ladelphia market was $lS a amo
rel. The average price Of wheat gest
England was 90 shillings and
rter. the