It is commonly termed "meteorological summer" or
winter, spring, autumn.
http://www.colby.edu/sts/st215/3.2view/sld005.htm
Aussies use these meteorological conventions as well
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/2003-12-21-answers-seasons_x.htm
Irish calendar uses May, June, July as summer!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar
But these are all based on convention, politics,
tradition, weather people who miss on their forecasts
by 20 degrees, etc...perhaps there are even more
variations yet to be brought up here! Barring any
cataclysmic changes to the earth's orbit, the natural
constants will always hold; and how could we trump
mother earth with our own conventions (but just look
at a map - havent we done that anyway already???)
--- Doug Murray <
doug@...>
wrote:
>
> Any other countries do it this way? I've never
> heard of it before.
>
> What comes after two days of rain in Vancouver?
>
> Monday!
>
> Hahaha....
>
>
> On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at 09:46 PM, Jesper
> Nielsen wrote:
>
> > Yesterday 1st day of Summer
> > 1 Sep = fall
> > 1 Dec = winter
> > 1 March = spring
> >
> > Jesper
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Doug Murray
> > To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:53 AM
> > Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Four seasons
> quadropoints
> >
> >
> > Really? The seasons are fixed on the calendar
> like that?
> >
> > Here in the Great White North we follow the
> sun...
> >
> > So is today the first day of spring in Denmark?
> >
> > Still in winter,
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Jesper
> Nielsen wrote:
> >
> >> Well, in Denmark is has always been on June 1.
> >>
> >> June 20 or 21 is the longest day.
> >>
> >> Jesper
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: Flynn, Kevin
> >> To: 'BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com'
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:08 PM
> >> Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Four seasons
> quadropoints
> >>
> >>
> >> It wouldn't be on June 1; it would be at the
> precise clock time on
> >> June 20 or 21, whenever the equinox is. The
> official start of the new
> >> season is the precise point in time when the sun
> crosses the line of
> >> the equator, not a particular day.
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Jesper Nielsen
> [mailto:jesniel@...]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 10:17 AM
> >> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> >> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Four seasons
> quadropoints
> >>
> >>
> >> Sounds like a pizza, doesn't it?
> >>
> >> Well, have you wondered where you can stand
> in four seasons at the
> >> same time? Probably not. Well here is the answer:
> >>
> >> 1) On the Columbian-Brazil border:
> >> http://tinyurl.com/25anb
> >>
> >> 2) Internal Brazil: Boundary of Para and
> Amapa:
> >>
> http://www.brazilhouston.org/ingles/fusohora.gif
> >> http://bloggle.com/coffee/brazil-map.jpg
> >> http://tinyurl.com/2qsj8
> >>
> >> 3) Internal DR Congo: Boundary of Equateur
> and Orientale
> >> http://tinyurl.com/3hmmj
> >>
> >> 4) On DR Congo-Uganda border:
> >> http://tinyurl.com/2c5ck
> >>
> >> Explanation?
> >>
> >> From June 1st N of Equator starts summer, S
> of Equator starts
> >> winter
> >> Each N-S boundary about also marks a time
> zone boundary
> >> so W of the line is one hour behind E of the
> line.
> >>
> >> So if you stand in
> >> Columbia N of equator at 00.30 am Columbian
> time it's summer
> >> Columbia S of equator at 00.30 am Columbian
> time it's winter
> >> Brazil N of equator at 00.30 am Columbian
> time it's spring
> >> Brazil S of equator at 00.30 am Columbian
> time it's fall
> >>
> >> How about that?
> >>
> >> The bad news are that all four points seems
> hard to reach.
> >>
> >> Jesper
> >>
> >>
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