Peter Oram on Nostr: We conceptualise seasons starting at the beginning of a month, not at a solstice or ...

We conceptualise seasons starting at the beginning of a month, not at a solstice or equinox. Summer is 1 December to 28 February, and so on. The season names are mostly just tags anyway, at least for those of us not living in temperate zones. I have to recite “spring, summer, autumn, winter” to know if I’m in spring or autumn, as these aren’t meaningful to me. Honestly for me in the subtropics I feel like summer is from October to April; May and September are shoulder seasons; June to August is a lovely mild winter!