Like the rest of our technology, culture, society and DNA, then?
We could call it Universal Time, or UT for short, and use it for airlines, the military and other high tech use for starters.
Oh, hang on . . .
Thank goodness!
Never mind the calendar, if the sun is as far away as it can get and now on the return it must be mid winter. Same as June 21st is mid summer with the sun as further north as possible.
Does that have a meaningful impact on earths temperature? If for instance it was the other way round; perihelion was in July, would the UK’s average summer temps be warmer than it is just now?
Explain this then. Mid summers day is June 24. You can't have it both ways. Exactly 6 month before this is December 22nd so therefore mid winters day. Never? mind what you read, do the maths and work it out for yourself. Now answer this mathamatical pure fact and logic. (If u can)
Yes, but not huge. The southern hemisphere has slightly warmer summers and cooler winters because of this, but other features have a bigger effect. For example the Antarctic is colder than the Arctic, partly because of this, but a much larger impact is the former is high land and the latter is ocean.
Well I certainly didn’t name a religious festival midsummer, and it doesn’t bother me that they called it that. It is, though, at the very start of summer at the equinox.
There are no hard and fast definitions of dates of the seasons. Different people use different dates. You use what you like best. No-one will care.
Not daffodils and snowdrops and winter pansies. They don't struggle. They take it in their stride. Screw theWithin reason. You shouldn’t, for instance, have midwinter in late December, midsummer in late June while first day of spring is march, it would make no sense to have such a short Spring. Also it’s useful to have plants blooming in Spring, something they often struggle with in mid February
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