Feels Like Summer
<p>On the first of May every year I’m taken back to a memory from my childhood: Me, sitting at my kitchen table with the sun beaming in through the double doors, my Dad opening them wide and announcing the official beginning of summer.</p>
<p>According to the laws of astronomy, the beginning and end of seasons are determined by dates of equinoxes and solstices. There’s a spring equinox, a summer solstice, an autumn equinox, and a winter solstice, the end of one always marking the beginning of the next. Because these dates change every year, so to do the lengths of astronomical seasons. <strong>This years summer solstice falls on June 20th, so therein marks the beginning of the astronomical summer</strong>. While meteorology also takes notice of equinoxes and solstices when determining the length of a season, by this law the seasons fall not on the day of those equinoxes and solstices, but on the first day of the month during which they happen. <strong>So this year, by meteorological standards, summer begins on June 1st.</strong></p>
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