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This article is about the weather-related phrase. For other uses, see Dog Days (disambiguation). The expression dog days refers to the hot, sultry days of summer, originally in areas around the Mediterranean Sea, and as the expression fit, to other areas, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.
According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, the unofficial authority on all things folklore and weather-related, the phrase dog days refers to the hottest time of the year, which is the 40 days that span from July 3 through August 11. The Almanac explains: August 11 coincides with the heliacal (at sunrise) rising of the Dog Star, Sirius.