The extreme weather events of 535–536 were the most severe and protracted short-term episodes of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere. Its effects were widespread, causing unseasonal weather, crop failures, and famines worldwide. The event is thought to have been caused by an extensive atmospheric dust veil, possibly resulting from a large volcanic eruption in the tropics, and/or debris from space impacting the Earth. Further phenomena was reported by a number of independent contemporary sources as low temperatures, even snow during the summer. "A dense, dry fog" in the Middle East, China, and Europe or Drought in Peru, which affected the Moche culture.
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