This was supposed to be an off-list message to BrianS - hence the
antipodean paranoia. It's done here on months so Spring begins with
March and Winter at the start of June. Not that we have European
seasons anyway so the entire concept is confusing. People always seem
to be surprised that the second half of Winter is dry and fine
although it happens every year - just because they're expecting
something called winter. I think that Melbourne has six seasons a
year and they are quite predictable - must come up with names for
them someday. Northern Aus. has just two seasons - The Dry and The
Wet - that's sensible.
And we have Autumn, all right?! (No native deciduous trees - well
one, Nothofagus gunnii, for the biopedants).
AndrewF
>Don't blame that one on us seppos. We don't call is 'summer time', but
>Daylight Saving Time, which is rather silly too, but makes no statement
>about when any seasons start.We start DST pretty close to the equinox on
>the first Sunday in April. However, we end it on the last Sunday in
>October, over a month after the equinox. I believe the EU starts a week
>earlier and ends at the same time. We could have started it here a
>couple of weeks ago. We've just had 2 weeks of exceptional weather, with
>highs in the mid70s to low 80s F.
>
>I believe the Cross Quarter days are much better season indicators than
>the Solstice/Equinoxes. Still not perfect, depending on local patterns
>and annual variation. Your Fall and our Spring would then have started
>in early February at Candlemas and our Summer, your Winter starting with
>Beltane in early May.
>
>Moose
>
>afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>Your computer clock is wrong. Summer ended with the end of Feb., not
>>with the autumn equinox. It is a stupid and I suspect yank habit to
>>define the beginning of spring and autumn with the equinox - the
>>impliction would then be that the solstices do the same and summer
>>would begin on midsummers day - plainly absurd.
>>Resist this bizarre concept - we have been in autumn for some time already.
>>And how's the weather and where travelest thou?
> >Andrew
>>
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