![]() ![]() The Earth's average global temperature dropped 5 degrees Fahrenheit, according to UCAR, and in some areas, the drop was more than 10 degrees according to Dr. The smaller particles spewed by the volcano were light enough to spread into the stratosphere and eventually had a worldwide effect on climate by reflecting solar radiation back into space. "It might have been millions who died in total," said AccuWeather Founder and CEO Dr. The eruptions killed up to 100,000 people - some immediately on the volcano's Sumbawa Island - and tens of thousands of others as a result of starvation and the resulting crop failures and disease. "Mount Tambora ejected so much ash and aerosols into the atmosphere that the sky darkened and the sun was blocked from view," according to an article on the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) website. The key cause was the eruption of Indonesia's Mount Tambora in 1815, as the largest volcanic explosion in recorded history occurred over four months beginning in April. This year's expected May temperatures, though, can't even compare to what's considered "The Year Without a Summer." The year 1816 featured unprecedented cold conditions throughout the United States and Europe. And on May 7-8, 1989, a late-season New York snowstorm dropped 10.7 inches of snow in Rochester and 7.2 inches in Buffalo. On May 6, 1992, low-temperature records were set in Chicago, Illinois (30), Worcester, Massachusetts (29), and Marquette, Michigan (18), as well as in other cities, according to AccuWeather data. While unique, it's not without precedent. The April 1815 eruption of Tambora left a crater 11 kilometers (7 miles) wide and 1 kilometer (half a mile) deep, spewing an estimated 400 million tons of sulfuric gases into the atmosphere. In this June 20, 2011, photo, a team from the Institute for Archaeology conduct excavations in the hamlet of Tambora on the foot of Mount Tambora, Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
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