Zaraz ziemniaczana zebrała w tym czasie żniwo w całej Europie. Irlandzka stałą się najbardziej "medialna", ale w społeczeństwach uzależnionych od ziemniaka, w tym w Europie Środkowej zebrała zaraza setki tysięcy ofiar. A potem przyszłą jeszcze cholera.
W ogóle końcówka lat 30-tych i lata 40-ste były ekstremalne w całej Europie: w Irlandii Noc Wielkiego Wiatru, który poprzedzał zarazę, w Polsce katastrofalne powodzie, gradobicia i surowe zimy.

1844/1845 (Winter)  A cold winter over western Europe / implied for parts of Britain. (Easton, in CHMW/Lamb)
1845 (late Summer/early Autumn):  BLIGHT & CROP FAILURE ACROSS EUROPE
1. Notably cold weather July to September. The summer of 1845 (June, July & August) had a mean CET=14.2degC, around a degree below the all-series mean. Specifically, August 1845 was over 2 degC colder than average. This summer was part of a run of poor such seasons from 1843 to 1845, with significantly below average temperatures using the CET series.
2. Persistent / often heavy rains over Ireland accompanied by depressed temperatures during the second half of the summer, precipitated the start of a great famine. The failure was caused by rotting of the potato (a staple food for poor families in the island) in the ground - the weather conditions (cold / damp) being ideal for spread of the spores which caused the Blight. By October of 1845, there had been a total collapse of the Irish potato source. The situation was made worse because of the failure of the corn harvest in Britain and western Europe, and the indifference of both the government in Westminster [ Ireland was at this time part of the United Kingdom ] & of the land-owners, many of whom were English, or Anglo-Irish.
1845/1846 (Winter)  Notably mild winter in Scotland. (c.f. to 'severe' winter conditions much further south e.g. Paris). The generally mild weather lasted from December to early March, when 'winter' set in. The mild conditions were also reflected in the CET record, where the value was 5.8degC (roughly +2C), placing the winter within the top dozen-or-so of mild winters.
1846 (April)  A wet month, with an EWP value of 112 mm, representing roughly 180% of the contemporary LTA. In Dorset, work on the Southampton to Dorchester Railway was halted for a time due to the wet conditions underfoot.
May/Jun 1846  Hot, dry spell began on 25th. Ended (as a 25-day exceptionally hot, dry spell) in Ireland on 18th June.
August 1846  1st: Violent thunderstorms. Hail smashed glass arcade over Regent Street pavements in London beyond repair.
1846 (Summer)  1. Further high rainfall in Ireland - causing additional misery after the previous failure of the potato crop (see above). The hardship in the island continued for many years (until at least July 1849), encouraging emigration & fostering the ill-feeling towards rule from England which was to cause so much strife in the next 150 years. In 1841, the census total for Ireland was 8.17mn; by the 1851 tally, it had fallen to 6.55mn: it has been estimated that over 1mn people died due to the Famine.
2. With a CET value of 17.1degC, this summer over England & Wales was in the 'top-5' of WARMEST summers in that series (began 1659). [ I suppose you could speculate that it was for this reason that English landowners did not fully appreciate the plight of poorer people in Ireland. However note that summer 1846 was also WET in the EWP series, with ~125% of LTA rainfall.]
September - November 1846  20th September: Beginning of period of violent gales in Ireland, lasting until 21st November.
20th October: Violent storm in Ireland, probably former tropical hurricane.
1846/1847 (Winter)  The winter of 1846/47 was noted for severe frosts and heavy rains across southern England. Using the CET record, December had a value of 0.5degC, at least 3.5C below the all-series mean; January and February anomalies were between -1 and -1.5C. The winter as a whole ranked within the 'top 10%' of coldest winters in this long established series. [CET] { Rainfall, using the EWP series, doesn't appear to be extreme (December relatively dry), but this series may not reflect local conditions. } On the Southampton & Dorchester Railway, then under construction, working across the soils of the New Forest proved to be very difficult. In a single week, a total of 13 horses became stuck in the mud and had to be destroyed.
July 1847  Cloudburst on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall: Flooding rivers destroyed bridges.
1848: (February)  1. One of the wettest Februarys across England & Wales (using the EWP series).
1848 (Summer)  A notably wet summer (157% of LTA 1916-1950) across England & Wales (see Lamb/CHMW). At Greenwich, the total rainfall for the three months of June, July & August=247mm (161%). June 1848 was especially wet here (Greenwich), with 89mm or ~210% of LTA. July had below average rainfall (85%), but August was back up to 186% anomaly with 108mm, by far the wettest month of that very wet year (q.v.).
1848 (Annual)  9th wettest in the EWP series (as of 2004). Notable floods along the Thames Valley.
April 1849  Great snowstorm in S. England: Westerham (Kent) coach buried in drifts.

Głodu ziemniaczanego nie nazwałbym ludobójstwem, ale nazwałbym przykładem haniebnego pomiatania jednym narodem przez drugi, okupujący go. Głód ziemniaczany był jednak mniej sztuczny od wielkiego głodu na Ukrainie, do którego władza przyczyniła się walnie; jej działania były tutaj decydujące. Anglicy tylko "pomogli" zarazie. Byli czynnikiem drugorzędnym, inaczej niż sowieci na Ukrainie.
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