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July is the month in which, on average, the highest precipitation falls in Lithuania – 84 mm (SKN, average 1991-2020), and the wettest of the three decades is the second, starting after the Sleeping Brothers, the tenth – 30 mm. Therefore, the ancients’ observation that July is the rainiest month is correct. It is true that on the coast and in the western part of the country the rainiest is usually October.
This time we tried to see what the Sleeping Brothers did when it rained on July 10 at all 18 weather stations and vice versa when everything was dry. Since 1961, in 60 years, it has been raining all over Lithuania for only 7 years and 11 years when it has not rained at all.
The claim that if it doesn’t rain through Sleeping Brothers, wait for the drought, was perfectly confirmed in 1992: the drought continued in some places until the second half of August. However, 1993 and 2017 refute this claim. 1993 did not rain in any season, and the whole summer was very rainy; It didn’t rain just one day after the Sleeping Brothers. 2017 July 10 it rained sparingly at a single weather station, but the rainy season lasted until mid-August.
Since the year when it rained in all seasons, the abundance of precipitation differed in the 1980s: in Lithuania it rained on average about 20 mm per day (from 2.2 mm in Utena to 34.4 mm in Telšiai) and the rain continued until July 28. And last year, in 2020, on the contrary, 10 days. it rained in all seasons. 11 d. 17 of 18, followed by an 8-day dry period.
So with a good search, we can find facts that confirm and disprove the Sleeping Brothers myth. Believing or not believing is a matter of free choice.
And what will be on July 10 this year?
According to ethnologists, the name of the Seven Brothers Sleeping Day comes from the legend of seven brothers, martyrs for the faith, who built a shrine in Kiev, and then fell asleep and slept until now. By the way, July 10. in the morning, a seven-star chandelier appears briefly in the sky.
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