If you're from the South or have ever spent any time in the region during the summer months, you might cast a little side-eye at the screen while watching The Notebook. No one in their right mind dares to wear thick cardigans, wool coats, caps, and long sleeves during sweltering Southern summers. 

We know several of the scenes in which the characters are seen all bundled up — going to the movies, dancing in the middle of the street — were, in fact, set during the summer, because they occurred shortly after Allie and Noah first met. The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks confirmed this timeline himself, telling CBN the film was "one third set the summer that they first meet when they are 17." 

To put things into perspective, the highest daily max temperature in Charleston (where filming took place) during the month of June occurred in 1944 and was 103 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a report by the National Climatic Data Center. And on average, the mean temp during June hovers just shy of 90 degrees. Coats and scarves? Uh, no thank you.