The term "Indian Summer" may come from the American Indians apparent indifference to cold weather. In historical novels, one can find reference to this, where the Indians would wonder why the white men would bundle up, just because there was snow on the ground.
In graduate school, I had a girlfriend whose family had just moved back from a 2 year tour in Thule (north-west Greenland, ... a tundra <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra> climate <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_climate> (ET <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ppen_climate_classification>) with long, severely cold winters lasting most of the year and short and cool summers.). She would walk across Campus (in Tennessee) during a snow-storm in just a short-sleeve summer dress. We are more adaptable than we think! Andrew _ _ _ On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 8:27 PM MSF <foster...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, September 19th, 2024 at 12:09 PM, Robin < > mixent...@aussiebroadband.com.au> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > In the US, you sometimes get an "Indian Summer" around this time of > year. So do we in Australia. > > That's strange because the seasons here are reversed. > > IOW it happens to the whole planet at the same time of year. What > happens on an annual basis? We go around the Sun. So > > maybe there is a particular spot on the Sun that radiates more than > elsewhere, and we just go past it around this time > > of year? > > > > Regards, > > > > Robin van Spaandonk > > > > > Hello, Robin > > Unless I'm misinterpreting, you are saying that your "Indian Summer" > happens in the Australian spring in order to be simultaneous with the > American equivalent in the autumn. > > The sun itself rotates at approximately once every 30 days, depending on > the solar latitude. So there is no hot spot to be exposed toward the earth > at any given time. Indian summer is a cultural interpretation of nice warm > weather in the autumn. Why it should be associated with native Americans > I'm not sure. > > M. > >
