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Happy mid-autumn! (solstice at 13:44 PDT today- http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/2013.html).
My rant of the day, well, one of them:
It's really silly how many western/temperate cultures think of summer as starting in late june. It's a modern convention. Any agrarian society will tell you that mid june is the height of summer (hence historically calling the summer Solstice "mid-summers day"). It's as bad as calling Yule the start of winter; anyone that's been in a real winter knows that's it's full-on cold by that time.
What's worse is all the people that say things like "bla-season-bla has OFFICIALLY started". Stuff and nonsense, I say to that.
Let's call things as they really are in temperate climes- spring from early Feb to early May, summer from May to August, autumn/fall from august to November, and winter from then until February again. If you're in the southern hemisphere, please invert this message.
My rant of the day, well, one of them:
It's really silly how many western/temperate cultures think of summer as starting in late june. It's a modern convention. Any agrarian society will tell you that mid june is the height of summer (hence historically calling the summer Solstice "mid-summers day"). It's as bad as calling Yule the start of winter; anyone that's been in a real winter knows that's it's full-on cold by that time.
What's worse is all the people that say things like "bla-season-bla has OFFICIALLY started". Stuff and nonsense, I say to that.
Let's call things as they really are in temperate climes- spring from early Feb to early May, summer from May to August, autumn/fall from august to November, and winter from then until February again. If you're in the southern hemisphere, please invert this message.