wubbbalubbadubdub t1_jdzx5sa wrote on March 28, 2023 at 12:43 PM

Ok so there are a few things wrong with this thought.

First summer has more daylight hours than because of the effect of the tilt on the Earth's axis.

Second the summer solstice for the northern hemisphere will be June 21st, which is not the first day of summer.

MPMorePower t1_je01q6s wrote on March 28, 2023 at 1:20 PM

Um what? We know the tilt of the axis is what changes the daylight hours.

And Summer is literally defined as starting on the Summer Solstice. All the seasons officially start on their solstice or equinox.

Summer is warmer than spring because the (average) temperature is a bit laggy. The longer days take a while to actually get the surface to warm up.

wubbbalubbadubdub t1_je0eq86 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 2:51 PM

>All the seasons officially start on their solstice or equinox.

Nobody seriously bothers with that definition of the seasons, Meterological seasons are overwhelmingly more common. First day of summer is June 1st.

MPMorePower t1_je0tpcu wrote on March 28, 2023 at 4:28 PM

My calendar app shows June 21 as the first day of summer, and so do my paper calendars. If you Google “first day of summer, 2023” it shows you “June 21st, 2023” before you are even done typing. We just had the first day of Spring last Monday (on the equinox) which was a semi-big deal because of how rough this Winter was.

I have no idea where you are getting June 1st from, I’ve never heard of seasons starting on anything except the equinox/solstice. It lines up reasonably well with the noticeable warmer/cooler weather due to the lagginess of the average temperature.

teddim t1_je10jun wrote on March 28, 2023 at 5:11 PM

>I have no idea where you are getting June 1st from

That's according to the meteorological definition of summer rather than the astronomical one. Both are used across the world, but I've also only considered June 21st to be the start of summer.

teddim t1_je109ay wrote on March 28, 2023 at 5:09 PM

>June 21st, which is not the first day of summer.

It is according to the astronomical definition of summer. You're using the meteorological definition. Both definitions are commonly used.

>summer has more daylight hours than because of the effect of the tilt

Not when you consider the summer to start at the summer solstice.

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Spring and summer have almost the exact same amount of daylight hours because the longest day falls on the first day of summer

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