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An Indian summer is a period of unseasonably warm, dry weather that sometimes occurs in autumn in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. Several sources describe a true Indian summer as not occurring until after the first frost, or more specifically the first "killing frost".
Jan 7, 2024 · For over two centuries, The Old Farmer’s Almanac has gone by the adage: “If All Saints’ (November 1) brings out winter, St. Martin’s brings out Indian summer.”. “Indian Summer” is not the best terminology, given the history of the term “Indian” in North America. The weather phenomenon is best described using the term that ...
Indian summer, period of dry, unseasonably warm weather in late October or November in the central and eastern United States. The term originated in New England and probably arose from the Indians’ practice of gathering winter stores at this time. This autumn warm period also occurs in Europe,
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In the 1830s Indian summer began to be used figuratively, to refer to any late flowering following a period of decline. It was well enough established as a phrase by 1834 for John Greenleaf Whittier to use the term that way, when in his poem Memories he wrote of “The Indian Summer of the heart!”. Thomas De Quincey, republished in Bentley ...
May 7, 2024 · by Farmers' Almanac Staff Updated: May 7, 2024. “Indian summer” is a phrase most North Americans use to describe an unseasonably warm and sunny patch of weather during autumn. Weather Historian William R Deedler, of the National Weather Service, describes it as “any spell of warm, quiet, hazy weather that may occur in October or even ...
Indian summer: [noun] a period of warm or mild weather in late autumn or early winter.
Nov 1, 2014 · Accordingly, Indian Summer can occur between St. Martin’s Day (always November 11 th) and November 20. If the conditions that constitute Indian Summer do not occur between those dates, then there is no Indian Summer that year. If a period of warm fall weather occurs at a different time, such a period could be correctly described as being like ...
