The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-09-15
NO SUNSHINE THAT YEAR
Snow and Ice Prevailed in June, July
and August, 1916.

The following article of interest
to weather observers was found in a
scrap book kept by A F. Roby, who
had clipped it out Of a Connecticut
paper 80 or more years ago:
The year 1915 was known through
out the United States and Europe as
the coolest ever experienced by any
person then living. There are persons
in Northern New York who have
been in the habit of keeping diaries
for years, and it is from the pages
of an old diary begun In 1910 and
kept unbroken until 1910 that the fol-
lowing information regarding this
year without a summer has been ia
ken:
January was so mild that most per-
sons allowed their fires to go out md
did not burn wood except for cooking.
There were few cold days, but thy
were very few. Most of the time the
air was warm and spring Hike. Feb
ruary was not cold. Some days were
colder than in January, but the wealth
er was about the same. March, from
the first to the sixth, was inclined to
be windy. 1t came in like small
lion and went out very innocent
sheep
April came in warm, but as the
days grew longer the air Became
cooler, and by the 1st of May there
was a temperature like that of winter,
with plenty of snow and ice. In May
the young buds were frozen dead, ice
formed half an inch thick ON ponds
and rivers, corn was killed and the
cornfields were planted again and
again, until it became too late to-
raise a crop. BY the last of May in
this climate the trees are usually In
leaf and birds and flowers are pienti-
full. When the last of May arrived
in 1916 everything had been killed by
he cold.
June was the coolest month roses
ever experienced in this latitude. |
Frost and ice were as common as
usually are. Almost every |
green thing was killed; ali fruit was
destroyed Snow fell 10 inches deep
n Vermont. There was a seven-inch |
all in the interior of New York state
md the same in Massachusetts,.
There were only few moderately
warm days Everybody looked, long l
d and waited for warm weather, but
YARN weather did not come.
It was also dry; very little rain fell.
Al summer long the wind blew stead
" from the north in blasts, laden
Nth snow and ice. Mothers knit sox
# double thickness for their children,
md made thick mittens. Planting
md shivering were done together. and
he farmers who worked out their
axes on the cvu..t s--ss roads wore over
oats and mittens.
A farmer near Texksbury. VT, had
j large field Of corn. He built fires.
Nearly every night he and his men
ook turns in keeping up the IRE and
vatching that the corn did not freeze.
The farmer was rewarded for his
ireless labors by having the only crop
f corn in the region
July came in with snow and ice.
IN the Fourth Of July ice as thick as
rindow glass formed throughout
lew England, New York and some
arts Of Pennsylvania. Indian corn.
,hich in some parts of the East had
truggled through May and June,
ave up, froze and died.
To the surprise of everybody, Au-
-ust proved the worst month of all.
Almost every green thing in this
ountry and Europe was blasted with
rost. Snow fell at Barnet, 80 miles
rom London, England, on August 80. :
newspapers received from England
tated that 1916 would be remember
by the existing generation as the
ear in which there was no summer.
here was great privaticn, and thous-
nds of persons would have persisted
4 this country had it not been for :
he abundance of FISH and wild game.