Indian Summer
a short period of warm weather in Autumn
TRANSLATION
Indian Summer = Altweibersommer, eine meteorologische Singularität. Es handelt sich um eine Phase gleichmäßiger Witterung im Herbst, oft Ende September und Oktober, die durch ein stabiles Hochdruckgebiet und ein warmes Ausklingen des Sommers gekennzeichnet ist. Das kurzzeitig trockenere Wetter erlaubt eine gute Fernsicht, intensiviert den Laubfall und die Laubverfärbung.
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"While almost exclusively thought of as an autumnal event, I was surprised to read that Indian Summers have been given credit for warm spells as late as December and January."
(Bill Deedler, Weather Historian, WFO Detroit/Mi, August 2002)
Did you
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Did you know?
The term Indian summer first appeared in print in the late 1700s. It's thought to come from the Native American practice of gathering winter stores during this unseasonably warm weather. Although the name Indian summer is an Americanism (it originated in New England), the weather phenomenon also exists in Britain, where it is known as all-Halloween summer or Old Wives' summer.
Indian summer also has developed a figurative sense, too, naming "a happy or flourishing period occurring toward the end of something."
(Source: Word for the Wise - Merriam Webster)
