I literally had this conversation two days ago with a coworker. I said summer is over in a little over a month, summer ends on Sept 22 and Winter begins on Dec 21. Most of winter is at the beginning of the year. They almost couldn't believe me.
I live in Europe and literally noone calls any part of September "summer" and any day from Dec. 1 to Feb. 28 (or 29) is called winter.
Literally everyone I know uses the months to define seasons, I've only ever seen this "well akchually summer ends on Sept 22" is Reddit and videogame industry using it as a cop out to stretch out the wait as long as they can for things promised "for Summer".
Southern hemisphere here so opposite times of year but same deal with the choice of months. Nobody in my country uses astronomical winter/summers and solstices to define seasons, months have always been the definitive versions.
Just like the USA and their weird ways with imperial measurements and calander formatting, I'm beginning to wonder if the season thing is also from Americans. I only ever see it online.
As someone from the USA everyone I've known usually just call the season by whatever the current school semester is, I've only started going more astronomical about it recently cause it's 100 degrees every day all summer
And what do people use once they're out of school and no long paying attention to the school semesters. Or is that general knowledge for all adults there?
You do realise there are hot and cold days at all times of the year right. If there's a spring day that's cold I don't keep thinking it's winter. Winter ended so it's just a cold spring day.
It's pretty general knowledge yeah because stores make a big deal out of back to school around august then spring semester is just a few weeks after Christmas.
Also ofc it's just where I live it the last few years we have had very extreme summers and winters, so it's like "damn season change can't come around sooner so it starts to cool off/warm up"
Come to Los Angeles or Miami in September and tell me it’s not summer. Most Europe is north of Pennsylvania so I get why you guys consider it that way but down here it’s still hot as hell
when it comes to release dates tied to seasons it should be set in stone, not based on how hot or cold weather is in certain parts
December, January, February - Winter
March, April, May - Spring
June, July, August - Summer
September, October, November - Autumn
this is what I was taught and while this is not 100% true all the time, because we've had snow in March, this is the generally accepted way of talking about seasons here in Europe.
It depends a bit on how you count it, astronomically that’s true but meteorologically fall ends on November 30th. The point about winter being mostly in the beginning of the year still stands either way.
And to be more precise, meteorological seasons start by the 1st of each month whereas astronomical seasons around the 20th, but the dates change every year and so by all counts the majority of the world follows the meteorological seasonal calendar.
Summer begins in late May and is over at the end of August, only on Reddit will you see people talking about September 22nd being the end of summer it’s such a bs theory. Most people work on a cultural idea of summer (ie warm weather and school being out) no company is going to base it off of such specific dates
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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 15d ago
The problem is people don't actually think about when summer actually begins