Seven -slip day: weather forecast for the next seven weeks!
Seven -slip day: weather forecast for the next seven weeks!
Ephesos, Türkei - On June 27th, the dormouse's day will be celebrated, a day associated with a fascinating legend. This tells of seven young Christians, whose names are Johannes, Serapion, Martinianus, Dionysius, Constantinus, Maximus and Malchus. They fled into a cave near Ephesos in 251 during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Decius. According to the story, the gentlemen were walled up alive and fell into a deep sleep of 195 years. It was only on June 27, 446 that they were discovered and attested to the death of the dead before they died again. [5min.at] (https://www.5min.at/5202506262008/siebenschlaefertag-wir-schwitzen-noch-Sieben- Weekly/) reports that this legend forms the foundation for the holiday.
Interestingly, the dormouse's day also has a meteorological meaning. A widespread peasant rule says that the weather will shape the following seven weeks on this day. This rule has come true in over 70 percent of cases. Scientific explanations attribute this to the jet stream, a strong wind at a height of about ten kilometers, which influences the weather conditions by creating high and low pressure areas. A stable high -pressure area over the Azores can, for example, lead to dry and hot weather in Central Europe.calendar shifts and weather phenomena
The calendar reform of Pope Gregor XIII. In 1582, the dormouse day was moved to the first week of July. This day originally fell to June 27, but this no longer applies due to the adjustment of the calendar. Historical sources report that today's June 27th due to this reform was actually moved to July 7th in the Gregorian calendar. Planet Wissen indicates that this shift is also relevant for the weather forecast.
In fact, the Siebenläfer rule describes the weather with great reliability from the end of June. The connections between high-deep and relief areas and the jet stream are complex because this air flow is not moving straight, but runs in zigzag positions.
The hundred -year calendar and its relevance
Another interesting aspect is the hundred -year -old calendar, which was published in 1700 by Christoph Hellwig. This work, which contained a lot of information about weather and agriculture, became a bestseller and is still known to this day. Originally back on Mauritius Knauer, a passionate naturalist and abbot of a monastery near Bamberg, the calendar tries to make predictions based on the weather phenomena and heavenly symptoms such as shooting stars and comets. Knauer observed that weather phenomena often repeat themselves in the seven-year cycle.
During the dormouse day on the legend of the seven brothers, the animal, the dormouse - a small nachlasting rodent - is not connected to this holiday. In fact, the dormouse day is not named after the animal, even if the name can cause a certain confusion. [MDR] (https://www.mdr.de/religion/wann-ist-siebenschlaefer-datum-leglegen-bauern- farmer-100.html) explains that this is a frequent misunderstanding.
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