Weather sayings
What does “the dog days of summer” mean?
The hottest, slowest stretch of summer, roughly July into August, when everything feels sluggish.
“Nothing gets done in the dog days of summer. It’s tradition.”
Get roasted by your own forecastFree, no account, and you pick how rude I get.
Where it comes from
Nothing to do with dogs lying in the shade. The ancient Greeks and Romans linked the hottest weeks with Sirius, the Dog Star, which rose with the sun at that time of year. The Old Farmer’s Almanac puts the dog days at July 3 to August 11.
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What I think of “the dog days of summer”
The dog days of summer: named after a star, enjoyed by nobody.
Dog days, when even the dogs look at the heat and decide to do nothing.
In the dog days of summer, the air moves slower than the queue for ice.
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Sources: The Old Farmer’s Almanac on Sirius and the dates.