IEM Daily Feature
Friday, 22 July 2022
Friday, 22 July 2022
Dog Days of Summer
Posted: 22 Jul 2022 05:30 AM
The "Dog Days of Summer" is an interesting term that folks tend to classify the summer weather as, but
it actually applies to the juxtaposition of the Sun and Sirius. Anyway, the analog to weather typically
relates to it being too hot for even a dog or things are hot and lazy as a dog with each day being about
the same as the last. So finally we arrive at the relevance for today's daily featured chart. The chart
presents the frequency of 24 hour change in temperature by week of the year. The highest frequencies
can be found during July and August around values close to zero, hence the propensity for each day to
be more like the last than not. Of course the major driver of that consistency is humidity, which helps to
moderate temperatures during the day and night time. July and August look mostly the same in this
chart and so the "Dog Days of Summer" term can equally apply to both months in the weather sense!
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