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“The evening of the 9th of July, the sky exhibited such novel though brilliant appearances,
as led us to fear that they would be followed by formidable changes of weather.
The course of the sun, as it sunk beneath the horizon was marked by a vivid glory
expanding into paths of light of the most beautiful hues.
They did not in the least resemble the pencils of rays which are often seen
streaking in the sky at sunset, but were composed of sheets of glowing pink, which diverging at equal distances from the suns disk, darted upwards from the horizon,
diminishing in intensity of colour, til they vanished in the azure of the surrounding atmosphere.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures”

In 1815 the volcano Tambora, of Sumbawa, an island in Indonesia, erupted.
This was by far the largest eruption of modern history.

After lasting for two weeks, killing a lot of people, spewing out something akin to 50 km3 of ash and assorted matter, it would go on to affect the climate for a whole year after. (Some say two years)

The most notable consequence of this being that on the three summer months of 1816.
The year without a summer.
Snow in July comes to mind.

Large parts of the world were significantly cooled down and as a result hit by crop failure and starvation.

Thus the volcano had affected not only the summer, but the rest of the year.
Killing many more than the people of Sumbawa.

Amidst all this was the spectacular effect the eruption had on the sunsets.
And on the sunrises.
Well on the sky in general.

That was really the other side of it all.

Description

“The evening of the 9th of July, the sky exhibited such novel though brilliant appearances,
as led us to fear that they would be followed by formidable changes of weather.
The course of the sun, as it sunk beneath the horizon was marked by a vivid glory
expanding into paths of light of the most beautiful hues.
They did not in the least resemble the pencils of rays which are often seen
streaking in the sky at sunset, but were composed of sheets of glowing pink, which diverging at equal distances from the suns disk, darted upwards from the horizon,
diminishing in intensity of colour, til they vanished in the azure of the surrounding atmosphere.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“Meteorological Imaginations and Conjectures”

In 1815 the volcano Tambora, of Sumbawa, an island in Indonesia, erupted.
This was by far the largest eruption of modern history.

After lasting for two weeks, killing a lot of people, spewing out something akin to 50 km3 of ash and assorted matter, it would go on to affect the climate for a whole year after. (Some say two years)

The most notable consequence of this being that on the three summer months of 1816.
The year without a summer.
Snow in July comes to mind.

Large parts of the world were significantly cooled down and as a result hit by crop failure and starvation.

Thus the volcano had affected not only the summer, but the rest of the year.
Killing many more than the people of Sumbawa.

Amidst all this was the spectacular effect the eruption had on the sunsets.
And on the sunrises.
Well on the sky in general.

That was really the other side of it all.