Imagine chilling and the next thing you know, you get summer snow because some volcano halfway across the world decides to act up. Just imagine the number of 'end is nigh' preachers that got a new lease on life during that year, lmao.

One mountain goes boom and everyone loses their summer? Sounds like an overreaction. Surely someone could've just turned on the sun again. Where's the manager for this planet?

Mt. Tambora also led to some of the first discussions around climate change—although not in the way we discuss it now. This eruption kinda set the stage for us understanding how external factors can drastically alter climate. So, badass eruption—yes, but also a significant moment for science!

This is the same summer that Lord Byron wrote 'Darkness'! He was hanging out with Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley. That summer helped shape Gothic literature. No sun and endless rain equals brilliant dark poetry and stories. Thanks, Mount Tambora?

An entire year without a summer? Great, just what we need—another reason to complain about the weather. Though, gotta say, snow in June would at least spice up my social media posts. #snowinsummer

Pretty wild stuff. Minor nitpick, though: it wasn't the biggest in 10k years, but definitely up there. The 1815 eruption rates a 7 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index. For comparison, Krakatoa in 1883 was a 6. Each increase in number represents a tenfold increase in explosivity. So Tambora was bad news bears.

Eruptions like Tambora's are really fascinating 'cause they show how fragile our climate system is. The volcanic winter it caused disrupted agriculture on a global scale and led to some serious famines. Makes you think about the potential consequences of even small shifts in climate patterns, let alone volcanic eruptions!

Yeah Mount Tambora's eruption was insane. When you dig in, you find out that 1816 had a lot of bizarre occurrences beyond the cooler weather—like red snow falling in Italy and Hungary, and blue suns in the southeastern US. People must've thought the apocalypse was coming. The eruption also influenced literature; Mary Shelley wrote 'Frankenstein' during this time because they were stuck indoors!