Summer is over but I wish everyone a fantastic month ahead of them! Keep your head up because September could be a great month for you! Hope you have a marvellous day!!
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SW-User
Summer is not technically over until the autumn equinox~ last week of September.
@SW-User That's one of the four big celestial events, yes, but it turns out that there are different notions of the seasons...
And of course you gave a Northern Hemisphere-centric answer, as we cool down and the Southern Hemisphere heats up & has its Spring Equinox.
SW-User
Sure but in most places the difference is more noticeable then than September 1st. Also my comment is based on the fact that ~ 90% of the world population live north of the equator 😛 @SomeMichGuy
Yeah, 88% in the Northern Hemisphere, w/~half of that amount above 27° N (so ~half of the total population in the Northern tropics & ~half above that).
Also ~82% in the Eastern Hemisphere (no surprise that it's more).
Yes, I used to think that, but remember, Google gives you the most popular answer, not necessarily the right answer. (If you use the calculator functionality, that's supposed to be correct, but if it's based on Java, that had all kinds of numerical issues.)
Look at a discussion of what different people consider it to be.
It was because of something posted here that I looked *that* up and found definitions which fit more with the weather people experience...let's see...
This is from a dictionary accessed by a Google search for "definition of summer":
summer noun ...
2. The warmest season of the year: in the United States reckoned as the months June, July, and August; in Great Britain as May, June, and July. See season.
That's one indication.
The Wikipedia article on it has
The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate, tradition, and culture.
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Northern temperate zone Astronomical season 21 June – 23 September Meteorological season 1 June – 31 August Solar (Celtic) season 1 May – 31 July
Southern temperate zone Astronomical season 22 December – 21 March Meteorological season 1 December – 28/29 February Solar (Celtic) season 1 November – 31 January
@SW-User Lol Yes, it is an answer, but not true for all.
As I said, I'd believed as you, and had thought it was more hard & fast. Someone here mentioned a different notion and I looked at it & learned something.
@SomeMichGuy I just wanted to put a smile on some people's faces because this app has a lot of people struggling with stuff. I didn't know you guys were going to pull out a whole ass study case on me and analyse everything I said🤣🤣
