You are aware that it is also officially the first day of winter right? We’re just done with autumn, winter has started and summer is still 6 months away!
“officially” is stretching it, there’s is no “official” start to any season, it’s open to interpretation.
The Meteorological Calendar, which is probably the most widely accepted “official” version has the seasons as:
Spring – March, April, May.
Summer, June, July, August.
Autumn, Sept, Oct, Nov and of course
Winter as Dec, Jan and Feb.
But even Meteorologists think it’s a bit pessimistic to have Dec the 21st being less than a 3rd of the way through the season as, being that it’s the point when the Northern Hemisphere is furthest from the Sun, hence “mid-winter” it should be the middle – so you could argue that Winter should start on the 6th of November, but the 5th of Feb doesn’t feel very ‘Spring like’ most people stick with March.
So it’s only 5 months and 1 week till Summer
70 days till spring.
52 days till the clocks go forward
But, and this is the big thing – we’re over the hump of it.
God, I bloody hate Winter, can anyone tell?