The red hot hounds of summer continue to be running loose

Latin for “big dog” — “appears to rise alongside the sun.” That sun/Sirius pairing, they believed, always delivered the hottest days each mid- to late summer.

The ancients were on to something. Typically, the highest temps of the year happen after the sky’s two big dogs join forces. This year’s “dog days” run from July 3 through Aug. 11, according to that book of all things wise and farm-tested, the Old Farmer’s Almanac.

Alan Guebert Farm & Food File

And right on cue, the dogs hit their stride in July and continue to run wild today.

York Times July 18. By the end of July, that unofficial number was nearing 31 million acres and the fires, like the dogs, aren’t finished yet. No matter when the fires end, 2023 will likely double the previous, 1989 record of “over 18 million” acres destroyed.

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