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September 20: Hot September
Sep. 20th, 2010 11:55 pmBy the daytime temperatures, you wouldn't know it's almost officially autumn here. It's still unpleasantly hot at 7 pm when the sun is going down. It's been in the upper 90s F for a couple of weeks, and supposedly we broke 100 today. That's not unusual, but it is getting to the point where I feel like it could get cooler, and I really wish the possibility would become a reality.
With the shorter days and relatively cooler nights, though, some of the azaleas are blooming again. A little later, and the magnolias may follow suit.
I was going to use the phrase "Indian summer" in the subject line of this post, but I looked it up and learned that while Indian summer does refer to summery weather in autumn, as I thought, it specifically refers to that weather occurring after the first frost but before the first snowfall. In the Northeast, this might be in October or November. Down here, we might not get our first frost until December, and our first snowfall (if there is one at all) in February. I don't think warm weather in January would be called an Indian summer. Oh well.
With the shorter days and relatively cooler nights, though, some of the azaleas are blooming again. A little later, and the magnolias may follow suit.
I was going to use the phrase "Indian summer" in the subject line of this post, but I looked it up and learned that while Indian summer does refer to summery weather in autumn, as I thought, it specifically refers to that weather occurring after the first frost but before the first snowfall. In the Northeast, this might be in October or November. Down here, we might not get our first frost until December, and our first snowfall (if there is one at all) in February. I don't think warm weather in January would be called an Indian summer. Oh well.