Seven Sleepers Day

The Seven Sleepers is on 27 June and a day of remembrance for the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus. The same old farmer usually has its relevance as Lostag approximately 10 days later to July 7, due to the Gregorian calendar reform.

Legend of Remembrance

It is named after the Seven Sleepers of an old legend. After seven young Christians had taken refuge in the time of persecution of Christians under the emperor Decius ( 249-251 ) in a mountain cave near Ephesus refuge. They were discovered and walled up alive. According to legend, they did not die, but slept 195 years long. On June 27, 446 they were discovered by accident, woke up, witnessed the belief in the resurrection of the dead and died a short time later.

The legend is documented in writing for the first time in the 6th century, Gregory of Tours ( 538-594 ) translated it into Latin for the first time. There are several Syriac and Greek versions. Even Islam ( Koran, Sura 18, " The Cave " ) tells a version of this story. With the rodent dormouse is no connection.

Meteorological singularity of the Bauer rule

The period around and especially after the Seven Sleepers shall determine weather as meteorological singularity, the country saying, there are a number of variants.

Statistical analyzes showed that, although is not the case for the Seven Sleepers themselves, but for the first week of July in southern Germany in 60-70 %, in Munich even in 80 % of cases, which is related to the dependent Jetstream weather situation, which is usually the end of June to early July stabilized for some time. Since these farmers usually arose well before the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, the current sleepyhead is actually the July 7. For the period from 5 to 10 July, the meteorologist Franz Baur ( 1887-1977 ) has demonstrated a statistical accumulation.

If the jet stream in the north, low pressure areas are usually deflected towards Northern Europe and areas of high pressure dominated the weather in southern Central Europe, it is located further south, so lows can move over central Europe. For Northern Germany with the stronger maritime influenced climate, however, the rule is not applicable.

Specifically, an extensive high pressure zone over Scandinavia at a establishment - a stable alliance with the Azores High is possibly with a high-pressure bridge over England - often to be expected in Central Europe with stable, dry and very warm to hot weather. Conversely, a cyclonic situation in West Germany and much of Central Europe's lead in the following weeks to very changeable and volatile weather. There is a high pressure gradient in the middle between the ground pressure systems Iceland low and the Azores high, which leads to a long-lasting supply of moist and cool air masses from the Atlantic Ocean to Central Europe. When in Northern Germany prevails cool North Sea air and in the south affect significantly warmer air masses, this also leads to very changeable weather effects. Is then severe weather potential, especially in the transition zone between cool and warm sea air.

Bauer rule

Many of the rules, and in June of the following month can be applied in a similar manner, such as, for example, to St. John's ( 24 June). In some regions, there are for more Lostage analogous rules covering things like Medardus (June 8, Czech Republic and Hungary), Gervase and Protasius (19 June ), the Visitation (July 2 ), or the Siebenbrüdertag (July 10 ).

Specifically, the following variants are known for the Seven Sleepers:

  • As the weather at the dormouse behaves, it is ordered for seven weeks.
  • If it rains on dormice, we are blessed with seven weeks of rain.
  • The weather on the Seven Sleepers may remain seven weeks.
  • How 's weather on sleepyhead, so likes to be in July.
  • If the dormouse cook rain, then it rains all seven weeks.
  • Is the dormouse wet, it's raining incessantly.
  • It's raining on the Seven Sleepers, the rain will stay seven weeks.
  • Are the Seven Sleepers wet, it's raining for a long barrel to barrel
  • The dormouse rain that brings the country a blessing.
  • Dormouse rain - seven weeks rain.
  • Seems the dormouse sun, there are seven weeks bliss.
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