A Cold Summer?

The temperatures are dropping and once again we are feeling the cold of winter.  During the deepest part of winter we can always have hope that warmer temperatures and summer are just around the corner.  This was not the case in 1816, which was called the year without a summer, the coldest summer on record.  In May, Indiana had snow or sleet on 17 days.  In June, there was snow, and livestock froze to death.  A farmer, leaving home June 17, joked that he might get lost in a snowstorm; he did, and was found with both feet frozen.  Similar weather afflicted the rest of the nation, too, with ponds and rivers freezing every month.  Hopefully this summer will not be as extreme as the summer of 1816!

- From the Grant County Historical Society