Where does the term "Indian summer" come from?  Why are warm fall days called that?
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One explanation of the term "Indian Summer" might be that the early native Indians chose that time of year as their hunting season. This seems reasonable seeing the fall months are still considered the main hunting season for several animals. Also, the mild and hazy weather encourages the animals out, and the haziness of the air gives the hunter the advantage to sneak up on its prey without being detected. Modern ideas on what an Indian Summer constitutes vary, but the most widely accepted value for determining whether one is experiencing an "Indian Summer" is that the weather must be above 21°C (70 F) for 7 days after the autumnal equinox.
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Aptly named because thunderstorms usually follow when the moisture reaches a certain level.  :)
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The correct name for them is fire flies (singular fire fly.)\n They come out during hot and humid climate.Can not pin point the months as climates are different in different countries/areas.
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Late in summer there is usually a period of hot, humid and almost smothering days that seem to go on and on forever.  The grass is dying, and the crickets sing at night.  So the title refers to a "time" of year.  Add the title in with the story for full effect.  And yeah, its a great movie.
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It was invented during world war 2 to increase production. It was called "war time". Basically instead of keeping to one time frame it has you start your day earlier in the summer and the "normal" time it would start in the winter by one hour. The idea was that if someone got to work earlier in the summer they would hopefully stay a little later since there was still daylight. It helped production by %5-10.
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Because you are in the neighborhood of ocean. In the day when it starts warming up, the water in the sea evaporates and then the clouds come with wind. So it rains in the afternoon or the evening when there are enough raindrops in the clouds
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Because the earth is tilted on its axis, we have seasons.  The seasons vary the length of daylight depending on the season.  When it is summer, and the days are long, in the northern hemisphere, it is winter in the southern hemisphere and the days are short.\n\nIf you think about this, you will realize that it can't be true of the equator.  Where the two hemispheres meet, the days don't vary by season.  The farther you are from the equator, the greater the length of the day (or night) -- so at the poles the sun deosn't set in mid-summer or rise in mid-winter.
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We feel Proud to Be Indian as we are richest person in the basis of the Culture The india was there in the ancient period Itself that is from the Vedic Period itself and it was called as the Punniya Boomi Because of its cultural Heritage here we even have the Practice of giving Food even to the DEAD.
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It was invented during world war 2 to increase production. It was called "war time".  Basically instead of keeping to one time frame it has you start your day earlier in the summer and the "normal" time it would start in the winter by one hour.  The idea was that if someone got to work earlier in the summer they would hopefully stay a little later since there was still daylight.  It helped production by %5-10.
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these are Italian names for seasons :\n\nPrimavera = Spring\nEstate = summer\nauttono = fall\ninverno = winter
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The National Weather Service has stated that the warmest part of the day during the spring/summer season is around 3:00 p.m.
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In Irish it's Samhradh (Sow-raa).\nIf you want to say "during the summer" you have to use what is called "an tuisil geineadach" or the genetive case. i.e.\nI rith an tsamhraidh (i ri on tow-rig) - during the summer\nHeat of summer - teas an samhraidh (tyass on sow-rig)\nHope that was helpful.
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Do you mean in terms of a school calendar?   The balanced calendar is the first cousin of year-round schools and would distribute vacation days throughout the school year rather than clumping them in the summer, although it would have the same number of school days per year as the present calendar.\n\nI'm not sure where the idea originated, but in some countries it is used moreso than in Canada and the US.  It is certainly causing controversy in many states.
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thats cause thats when the leaves fall. so its called fall season. seriously.
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Actually, sometimes, Americans say Autumn too. It depends on where in America you live. On the west coast nobody says it. On the east coast everybody says it. It's dialectal (language changing over areas).
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If I remember right I think it is INDIAN SUMMER ???\nLet me know if it rings a bell.
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not sure about India, but in the USA the summer break started when most people were farmers.  The parents needed the kids help during harvest season - summer - and were taking their kids out of school to get this help.  So schools started giving summers off for the harvest.