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Long Valley supervolcano: Geologists wonder if it’s ‘waking up’

We’re all too used to complaining about the weather in Britain.

Britain’s position between cold polar air in the north and warmer tropical air in the south which push against each other creates a seriously unpredictable environment.

Almost as unpredictable is how good — or bad — our summer will be, though it will surely never be as bad as the 1816 so-called ‘Year Without a Summer‘… or could it?

Jim Dale, author and Meteorologist, says it’s hard to predict whether Europe and Britain will see the climate “catastrophe” of that year strike again, but it’s “not impossible”.

“I expect somewhere in the next 100 years, whether that’s next year or not, something like it will happen,” he said.

An aerial view looking into Tambora Volcano from the rim of the caldera in Indonesia (Image: GETTY)

The scenario is extremely specific, not to mention rare. In 1816, Indonesia’s Mount Tamborablew its lid in what was the …