Michael Ossipoff <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the U.S., our astronomers have proclaimed that summer begins with the > summer solstice, and that spring begins wit the spring equinox. > ...proclaimed with absolutely no justification. It's become our national > definition of the seasons. I guess anything can mean anything if you define > it that way. > > But, obvious to everyone (other than our astronomers and the newscasters > who parrot them), by the time June 21 arrives, it has been summer for a > long time. > > It would be much more in keeping with our experience with the seasons to > say that Summer begins when June begins.
I gather that's the usual definition used by meteorologists. There's quite a good discussion in http://robminchin.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/why-summer-solstice-isn-start-of-summer.html Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Trafalgar: Northerly 5 to 7. Rough or very rough. Squally showers. Good, occasionally poor. --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
