Saturday, June 19, 2010

Top 10 Words of Summer


#5: Dog Days


This term means "sultry, summer weather" and also "a period of stagnation or inactivity."
But it has nothing to do with pets.


Sirius (known as the Dog Star) seems to reappear in the skies in early July. Its rising coincides with the warmest time of the year in the northern hemisphere – thus, the dog days.

2 comments:

H said...

Hey, I found the big dipper again when we were camping. Can't say that I do stars, but that one kind of jumps out at me every time we're camping.

Bill said...

The Big Dipper is one of the most easily recognizable groups of stars in the sky, being circumpolar (never setting below the horizon) and therefore visible in northern skies year-round. This is why you always can find it...