Fake Summer to End Today, Says Weather Expert

Today will mark the end of the warm nights and balmy breezes that have visited the University for the last two days, according to Charles F. Brooks, Director of the Blue Hills Observatory.

The bit of spring was not an Indian summer, said Brooks, but a freak of nature sandwiched between the last cold spell and the next. It should flee this afternoon before an onslaught of the usual wintry showers.

An Indian summer may come yet, Brook added, but it will have to put in an appearance soon. Thanksgiving is the traditional deadline for Indian summers. This current prank of the elements lasted only two days, where a genuine Indian summer usually streches out over a week or more. Frosty nights are another characteristic of Indian summers.

The respite was the tall of a tropical heat wave that hit the South last week. But since Monday, the high pressure warm front has been eplaced by a low, cold one which is now chasing all the zephyrs north.

Brooks said there was a good chance for an Indian Summer yet.