Snow in the Summer-August 19,1868

It was 1868, and it was a blazing hot Summer. It was riddled with thunderstorms each night. The grass had all dried up, and the wells were going dry.

The Summer of 1868 was historically hot and politically turbulent marked by extreme weather in Europe and significant events across the United States.

Europe Suffered Extreme Heat

England and Western Europe suffered through a severe drought and record breaking heatwave from May through July 1868, widely considered one of the hottest Summers in the instrumental record up to that time

Summer Solstice -Monday - June 21, 1868

There is two days per year, are the longest ones in terms of sunlight. The Summer solstice or festival solstice occurs when one of the Earth's poles has its maximum tilt towards the sun.It happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere, The Summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight.and the shortest night in that hemisphere.

US Native Conflicts

In July 1868, General William Tecumseh Sherman issued a stern edict to General Phillip Sheridan to crack down on the Cheyenne and Arapaho raids on the plains..

Things were heating up, weather wise and conflict wise in the northern hemisphere.

Then Came Out of the Season

Although, the weather was riddled with thunderstorms, every night, the grass was still dried up, and the crops were dying and the wells were drying up. Corn field were dried stalks, and the orchards were drooping with fruit hanging on the ground, despite the sprinklers that sprinkled water on the trees.

The Thunderstorm That Changed Everything

Then when one of the thunderstorms made their appearance, it started the way all of them did. They should have known there was something different, the temperature was about 10 degrees cooler.

Sally felt a cool drop on her arm, and she looked down on it, and it was white. No it was the middle of August, not yet the middle of December, and it wasn't time for this foolishness. No it wasn't snow, it couldn't be, but yet it was. One flake, two flakes three flakes, four. It was coming down at a steady pace now, and it was not like the warm sensation of Summer rain.

It Was Snowing Right In The Dead Of The Summer Season

I was snow drops that is for sure. It started as a few flakes, and then the wind picked up, as it always did in a thunderstorm, and it turned into a snowstorm, right in the middle of August.

Sally was amazed and so was everybody else, until it kept coming down and the wind picked up, and the snow accumulated on the ground. They eventually had drifting of the snow and drifts ranging from 2 foot to 3 foot deep, and 12 inches of snow, with sustained winds of 35 miles an hour, officially declared in a blizzard, right in the middle of August.

They had a full fledged blizzard on August 19, 1868.

The People Never Have Forgotten The Blizzard of 1868.