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0 pointstecoholic1mo ago0 comments

Does Europe and America really call the summer solstice the “start” of summer. Wow.

In India our summer holidays start at the end of March and finish in the start of June. That’s usually our hottest months too. And a lot of our regional “New Year” calendar’s and related festivals are on April 14th and can probably be considered the start of summer.

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hadlock1mo ago

Hottest day of the year in the US varies by 3 months from California to Texas, which is only about half the width of the country. I would imagine the region you're in has a different hottest day of the year from say Kashmir or your neighbor Sri Lanka.

dfc1mo ago

The three months difference must be based on a wild corner case. What cities are you basing that statement on?

I played around with weatherspark and all the places I tried looked like this :

https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/1705~8813/Comparison-of-t...

dmitrig011mo ago

I don't know whether to call it a corner case or not, but I was pretty easily able to find this one (based on my own experience – the peak temperature in the East Bay has always felt very late in the year): https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/541~3268/Comparison-of-th...

tecoholicOP1mo ago

3 months? Wow. It should be impossible to put seasons on a shared calendar for the whole country.

seb12041mo ago

Europe does not. Summer is June, July and August with a bit of give here and there.

jan_g1mo ago

Probably depends on where you are, etc., but as an European, I was taught in school two ways of splitting the year up into seasons: calendar/astrological and meteorological. Calendar split is based on solstices and equinoxes (21st March, 21st June, ...), whereas meteorological is based on month start (1st March, 1st June, ...). They use this also in weather reports, for example, where on 1st March they would add "Today starts meteorological spring" and on 21st March "Today starts calendar spring".

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