Editing Year Without a Summer (section)

===Asia===
The [[monsoon]] season in China was disrupted, resulting in overwhelming floods in the [[Yangtze Valley]]. Fort [[Shuangcheng, Harbin|Shuangcheng]] reported fields disrupted by frost and conscripts deserting as a result. Summer snowfall or otherwise [[Rain and snow mixed|mixed precipitation]] was reported in various locations in [[Jiangxi]] and [[Anhui]]. In [[Taiwan under Qing rule|Taiwan]], snow was reported in [[Hsinchu]] and [[Miaoli County|Miaoli]], and frost was reported in [[Changhua]].<ref name=igsnrr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090326133019/http://www.igsnrr.ac.cn/lwzzImg/1161151232919.pdf Serious Famine in Yunnan (1815–1817) and the Eruption of Tambola Volcano] Fudan Journal (Social Sciences) No. 1 2005, archived on March 26, 2009, from [http://www.igsnrr.ac.cn/lwzzImg/1161151232919.pdf the original]</ref> A large-scale famine in [[Yunnan]] helped reverse the fortunes of the ruling [[Qing dynasty]].<ref name="igsnrr" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Broad |first=William J. |date=September 2, 2015 |title=200年前，那場火山爆發改變了世界 |url=https://cn.nytimes.com/lifestyle/20150902/t02summer/zh-hant/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219130428/https://cn.nytimes.com/lifestyle/20150902/t02summer/zh-hant/ |archive-date=2020-12-19 |accessdate=2019-07-17 |work=[[The New York Times|紐約時報中文網]] |language=zh-hant}}</ref>

In India, the delayed summer monsoon caused late torrential rains that aggravated the spread of [[cholera]] from a region near the [[Ganges]] in [[Bengal]] to as far as Moscow.<ref name="Discovery Channel">[http://www.yourdiscovery.com/earth/year_without_summer/facts/index.shtml Facts – Year Without Summer]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308215640/http://www.discoveryuk.com/|date=March 8, 2020}}, ''Extreme Earth'', Discovery Channel.</ref> In Bengal, abnormal cold and snow was reported in the winter monsoon.<ref name=":5" />

In Japan, which was still cautious after the cold-weather-related [[Great Tenmei famine]] of 1782–1788, cold damaged crops, but no crop failures were reported and there was no adverse effect on population.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://turning-point.info/YearWithoutaSummer.html |title=夏のない年 from turning-point.info |access-date=September 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190911155915/http://turning-point.info/YearWithoutaSummer.html |archive-date=September 11, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Greenland sulfate.png|thumb|[[Sulfate]] concentration in [[ice cores]] from [[Greenland]]. An [[1808 mystery eruption|unknown eruption]] occurred before 1810.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dai |first1=Jihong |last2=Mosley-Thompson |first2=Ellen |last3=Thompson |first3=Lonnie G. |year=1991 |title=Ice core evidence for an explosive tropical volcanic eruption six years preceding Tambora |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres |volume=96 |issue=D9 |pages=17, 361–317, 366 |bibcode=1991JGR....9617361D |doi=10.1029/91jd01634 |s2cid=8384563}}</ref> The peak after 1815 was caused by Mount Tambora.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}]]