What happened in 1816? Why there was a June frost around the world and 200,000 people were frozen alive

In China, there is an idiom called "Flying Frost in June", which originates from the miscellaneous drama "Du E Grievance", when Du E was framed by a traitor and ended up being beheaded, at the execution ground, Du E swore to heaven that if she was wronged, then her blood would stain the white silk of the execution ground, the snow would float in June, and the local drought would last for three years. s vows were fulfilled one by one. Nowadays, people use "June flying frost" as a metaphor for injustice.

In 1816 A.D. (Jiang 21), China suffered a "June frost", even in July, and August are continued cold weather, Heilongjiang frost, for a while, everyone is worried that God is telling everyone that the Sing Dynasty has a great injustice, Jiang Emperor very headache, so that year in the end What happened? Is it anomalyalyievance"?

The answer is of course no, according to information from around the world in 1816, the weather in the northern hemisphere are a serious anomaly, Europe, North America, and idol withstand appears with summer frost spectacle, so this year is known as the "year of no summer".

We start with Europe. In 1815, the European continent has just ended the war against Napoleon, we are looking forward to a quick economic recovery, to live a stable life, but the advent of 1816, but caused more disinterestedness than the war.

In January 1816, the weather was relatively normal, and the weather was gradually warming up, so people removed the heating facilities in their homes and extinguished the fires in their rooms; in February, the temperature suddenly dropped again, but at this time people thought it was just a "cold spring", so it was not a problem; in March, the temperature officially warmed up and flowers bloomed. However, the next April, but began to suddenly become withhold a lot of freezing rain, and even floating snowflakes.

The next May, and June, many places continue to snow, and the river began to freeze, not yet ready to harvest the crops directly frozen to death, the people can not care so much, immediately turned out their winter clothes, rushed to the crops to protect the last grain, when a citizen wrote in his diary - " Frost and ice froze all the beans and grains in the fields, and the fields were empty and as white as snow in December."

By the time July and August rolled around, large numbers of livestock were frozen to death, there was a famine in Ireland and Wales, and there was even a rush for grain in Switzerland, where oats in New Zealand rose from 12 cents per barrel in 1815 to 92 cents, and even then, demand still exceeded supply. According to incomplete statistics, that year, about 200,000 people died in Europe from this "unusual weather".

Look at the Americas, that year, Canada and the northeastern United States was the most serious impact, Canada's Quebec in June when the direct snowstorm, a short period of snow of more than a foot, and a large number of unsuspecting people were frozen alive. The most terrible thing is that the United States also appeared at the same time "hot and cold alternation", a place maybe 35 ° C during the day, the afternoon may become 0 ° C, people are simply caught off guard, have fallen ill.

So, what exactly caused the "summer frost" in 1816? After experts' research, they found that the "culprit" is the Rambo volcano in Scumbag, India.

1815 April ~ July, located in Indonesia's Rambo volcano continued to erupt, the cumulative ejected 140 billion tons of magma, sprayed into the air of ash and debris in about 1.7 million tons, the volcanic eruption released the energy equivalent to the United States in Hiroshima, Japan, the atomic bomb explosion power of 50,000 times, the volcanic eruption sent a loud noise in 2500 km away can be heard, is the human At present, the most violent and terrible volcanic eruption known to mankind, when it led to the death of more than 60,000 people.

As Rambo the volcano eruption released a large amount of water vapor, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, methane, fluorine, chlorine, etc., they met, collided, and merged in the atmosphere, and finally formed a sol that blocked the sun's light, making it difficult for the sun's heat to reach the Earth, so the following year there was a shocking global "no summer year"