Let's be realistic here true autumn won't arrive for a couple more weeks still, at least not down here. I know it's autumn by the metoffice classification but climatically it's still summer. The sun still packing the same energy as it was in early August for parts of Scotland, and not until usually around the 3rd week of September that things will begin to change down here.
Night temperatures won't typically start dipping into single figures, and day temperatures will still be averaging in the 20's until October.
Originally Posted by: picturesareme
It's also technically still astronomical summer, and will be until the exact point in time of the Autumn Equinox (the exact time when the overhead Sun crosses the Equator from the Northern Hemisphere into the Southern Hemisphere) which for this year, will be at 1:43pm BST (12:43 UTC) on Sunday 22 September 2024.
It is only after that, that we will then be into the astronomical autumn and I know that there are a lot of people out there who prefer to go by that particular definition of the seasons.
As for the meteorological definition of the seasons, that only exists in order to make it easier for meteorologists to properly deal with the official statistics for each season because it is much easier for them if each season starts at the very beginning of a particular calendar month.
That same definition is used not just by the UK Met Office, but also by all of the various meteorological services throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Down in the Southern Hemisphere, the various meteorological services use the same system for defining their seasons, but with their seasons being reversed which means that when meteorological autumn started here in the Northern Hemisphere, meteorological spring started in the Southern Hemisphere.
Since this is a weather forum at the end of the day and since it is the weather and climate which meteorologists deal with, I prefer to go by the meteorological definition of the seasons but that is only my personal choice whereas others may well disagree with that and have their own take on that which they are perfectly entitled to have.
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03 September 2024 06:03:47
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The north of Edinburgh, usually always missing out on snow events which occur not just within the rest of Scotland or the UK, but also within the rest of Edinburgh.