@JillsJoy@NerdJoy.social The Year Without a Summer is a common plot point in many Regency stories. The better authors use it to analyse the economic and sociopolitical impacts, even in romances. On a related note, the last time there was an El Niño as severe as this one was apparently in the 1860s, and was known in India as "The Year the Monsoons Never Came" - global death toll estimates at 50 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer