Knowing that there was a "year without summer" two centuries ago can make you enjoy our pleasant, bright weather a little more, according to USA Today. The entire world witnessed a dip in temperature as well as other winter-like circumstances, such as snow in June and frost in August, in 1816 following a huge volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia that produced enough dust, ash, and sulfur dioxide to partially veil the Earth's atmosphere.
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