Harrisburg Telegraph

BALMY DAYS OF INDIAN SUMMER ARE IN PROSPECT

Weather Prognosticators Predict Pleasant Weather and Explain What the Season Really Is

Harrisburg is to be favored with a three or four-day period of Indian summer, according to advance information issued from the Weather Bureau.

Although the official terminology of the Weather Bureau does not include such a thing as "Indian summer," nevertheless, Weather Bureau employes so characterize the period of weather in store for Harrisburg within the next few days.

Unofficially, Indian summer is a period of warm weather in November, or later, which sometimes follows the first cold spell of the season. This definition is generally accepted, although there are many different opinions held by various amateur meteorological students.

Now, as to the reason of the forecasters in predicting a period of Indian summer for Harrisburg: They say that the mercury may hover around the 60-degree mark for several days and the rainfall will be negligible, although clouds are expected to overhang the horizon part of the time. Such weather can properly be known as Indian summer, they say.