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Don’t pack away your shorts and T-shirts just yet!
Hopes for an Indian summer are growing as forecasters say that hotter than average weather is predicted across the country for the next three months - and Teesside is no exception.
This week has seen temperatures hit 25 degrees Celsius in some parts of England, compared to an average maximum of just 16 degrees Celsius for September.
Today here in Teesside we can expect to see temperatures of up to 21 degrees Celsius with a minimum of 14 degrees Celsius.
Tomorrow temperatures are predicted to hit 20 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 13 degrees celsius.
The weekend however is set to be chillier with a prediction of 15 degrees Celsius on Saturday and 16 degrees Celsius on Sunday.
According to the Met Office’s three-month outlook, the good weather is likely to hold through autumn.
It said the probability that the UK’s mean temperature for September, October and November will be warmer than usual is 35 per cent and between 10 and 15 per cent to be cold.
The forecast will be welcome after a dreary August with torrential rain, cold temperatures and gales.
The Met Office Meteorological Glossary first published in 1916, defines an Indian summer as ‘a warm, calm spell of weather occurring in autumn, especially in October and November.’
The exact origins of the phrase are uncertain, several writers have speculated it may originally have referred to a spell of warm, hazy autumn conditions that allowed Native American Indians to continue hunting. in for an Indian summer
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