The traditional Chinese calendar already accounts for that, with Spring beginning in late February/early March. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_term.
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#22What is he on about? Ah, american. Ok.
In Ireland, in February, the days warm up often into the double digits, galanthus are flowering, grass begins to take on its spring green, and I am to believe that this is still the depths of winter. No, rejected. Dismissing this article as "American" is misguided at best.
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#24Some people live in a cabin and all they see is the thermometer. Some others live outside and they see nature
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#25I actually agree. Summer starting when the days grow short makes no sense. By that time half of summer has passed.
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#26What is he on about? Ah, american. Ok.
In Ireland, in February, the days warm up often into the double digits, galanthus are flowering, grass begins to take on its spring green, and I am to believe that this is still the depths of winter. No, rejected. Dismissing this article as "American" is misguided at best.
No, late february is not the depths of winter, it's the very end of winter
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#27Do you want to define the seasons by temperature? Or by lengthening of the day? Because, to me, seasons are tied to weather in general, but temperature specifically. And temperature seems to correlates to length of day, but trails it by about a month. Which makes sense, since it takes time to heat/cool the enormous thermal mass. So, if weather is how you track the changing of the seasons, it’s close enough to correct…
I thought the article could have been interesting if it cross-referenced with temperature, sadly it was quite basic.
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#28”Winter was short, this year”. “Spring came early”. It does not make sense to tie these concepts to a calendar. Summer is when you dare to dip your toes in the ocean. In winter we have a meter of ice. I generally place vacation weeks in July and august, because the weather is nice and other people are on vacation as well.
The statement that the seasons are wrong, does not make sense. To tie these names to a calendar, does not make sense.
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#29Round here (GB) the standard, as reflected in decorative calendars and the like, seems to be:
Spring: Mar, Apr, May
Summer: Jun, Jul, Aug
Autumn: Sep, Oct, Nov
Winter: Dec, Jan, Feb
Works for me.
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#30What is he on about? Ah, american. Ok.
American discovers basic property of life which their culture purposely rejected in order to be quirky™
((cries in erratic sydney weather))