#autumn starts on Sunday in the #southern #hemisphere
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@Heliograph What do you mean? Doesn't it start on March 21st when Spring starts in the northern hemisphere?
@David @Heliograph We conceptualise seasons starting at the beginning of a month, not at a solstice or equinox. Summer is 1 December to 28 February, and so on. The season names are mostly just tags anyway, at least for those of us not living in temperate zones. I have to recite “spring, summer, autumn, winter” to know if I’m in spring or autumn, as these aren’t meaningful to me. Honestly for me in the subtropics I feel like summer is from October to April; May and September are shoulder seasons; June to August is a lovely mild winter!
@sister_ratched @peterwyrm @Heliograph Thanks. However, my question is not as much as about how y'all conceptualize seasons (a somewhat arbitrary concept anyway, Summer solstice used to be Midsummer in the British Isles a long time ago) but about the official dates, the ones written on the calendar.