INDIAN SUMMER
It is official, we have been having our Indian Summer. The past week has been beautiful with temps reaching the high sixties and even to seventy degrees.
On the weather news today the new meteorologist which we got about two weeks ago said the conditions have been met for an official Indian summer. I knew it was supposed to be warm but I did not realize there was a certain limit for the conditions of an Indian summer.
I googled Indian summer and it said Indian summer normally sees temperatures above seventy and has dry conditions. It normally occurs in November after we have seen our first killing frost or freeze and before the first snowfall. It usually lasts about a week--maybe a little less or a little more. That is exactly the condition here right now.
The origin of the term according to Donna Dell'Osso, on Google, who said, perhaps it was a time when the Indians got their hunting done and growing their corn and other things ready for winter. Then they had a little more summer time to enjoy.
What ever, It is a treasured time for most of us Indiana folks! I look forward to it every fall.
posted by kyra lafain @ 11/12/2010 12:30:00 PM
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