Reply #28: kentuck, I was searching around to find what we might expect here due to the volcano, and found this:

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Interesting read. BTW, I didn't find your question silly at all.

New Jersey's ‘Year Without a Summer'

"The huge cloud of ash that is drifting across half of Europe after being thrown into the sky by an Icelandic volcano and causing the greatest disruption of airline service since the terror attacks of Sept. 11 is quite amazing but the same phenomenon caused the world – and New Jersey – greater problems nearly 200 years ago.

The year was 1816 or the "Year Without a Summer."

The previous year, the eruption of the 13,000-foot Mount Tambora volcano in Indonesia hurled an estimated 37 to 100 cubic miles of fine dust, cinders and ashes more than 15 miles into the atmosphere. The blast was heard 970 miles away and is estimated to have killed up to 10,000 people.

The eruption was, meteorologists believe, the greatest amount of volcanic dust ejected into the atmosphere in 3,000 years. The dust lingered in the stratosphere, partially shielding Earth from the sun's rays and enabled heat to escape from the planet, lowering the temperature..."


http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/science-updates/it-was-a-volcanic-eruption-that-caused-new-jerseys-year-without-a-summer-in-1816