At 10:10 PM 7/16/01 -0000 Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>Definition (2) is the corollary of the Earth-based definition of _Winter_ -
>and it contradicts (1), because December 22 marks the time when
>Winter begins or Autumn ends.
Of course, this is only good for astronomical definitions of the seasons.
In Syracuse, the saying was: "We have two seasons, winter and the 4th of
July." ;-)
More typically, the seasons were referred to as such:
Winter: Mid-November through Mid-March
Spring: Mid-March through June
Summer: June-August
Fall: September through Mid-November
The reason for this is that by Thanksgiving, it was always well-cold and
usually some decent snowfalls. (Actually, for a run of several years, the
first snow flurry was on Halloween.) By the same token, the worst
snowstorms were often in early March.
Of course, in Upstate New York school doesn't let out until the end of
June, so one usually did not think of "summer" until around mid-June
usually, probably second week of June at the earliest.
JDG
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