Today begins the 'dog days of summer.' In today's Weather Words, we take a look at how the phrase originated:
Canis Major, the constellation in which Sirius forms the dog’s nose. Illustration taken from Johann Hevelius's star atlas.to get more stories like this and weekday weather updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.
Today marks the beginning of “the dog days of summer,” a 40-day period running from July 3 to Aug. 11. And while the name may make you think of, who noticed that the most intense heat of the summer happened during the period when Sirius, the sky’s brightest star, rose and set with the sun. In fact, they attributed the seasonal heat to the star’s presence in the daytime sky, figuring that it was adding its own heat to that of the sun.
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