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What is the official UK date for the start of Summer? |
Travel Info What is the official UK date for the start of Summer? Travel Tips blimey that was a long answer! the short answer is june 21st!! first day of summer. have a nice long one! Others Summer is one of the four seasons of the year. Almost all English-language calendars, going by astronomy, state that summer begins on the summer solstice and ends on the autumn equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer in the Southern Hemisphere, oppositely, is the time of winter in the north. Alternatively, according to meteorology, summer can be the whole months of June, July, and August, in the Northern Hemisphere, and the whole months of December, January, and February, in the Southern Hemisphere. The convention in Australia is to use the meteorological definition so that summer starts on 1 December. The periods of the seasons are a matter of definition, though many in the media in North America call the astronomical definition the "official" one. In Ireland, summer starts as early as May 1, in many countries it is considered to be June 1, while in others it is as late as July 1. In general, seasonal changes occur later in coastal regions, so countries close to the oceans go for a later start to summer than inland ones. Summer is commonly viewed as the season with the longest (and warmest) days of the year, in which the daylight predominates, through varying degrees. In the West, the seasons are considered to start at the equinoxes and solstices--in an "astronomical" sense. However, because the seasonal lag is less than 1/8 of a year (except near large bodies of water), the "meteorological" start of the season precedes, by about three weeks, the start of the "astronomical" season. This time differential keeps the "meteorological" definition more symmetrically centered around the warmest part of the year than the "astronomical one" is. Today, the "meteorological" definition is gaining momentum[citation needed], but the "astronomical" definition is more frequent. Elsewhere, however, the solstices and the equinoxes are taken to mark the mid-points, not the beginnings, of the seasons. In Chinese astronomy, for example, summer starts on or around May 6, with the ji茅q矛 (solar term) known as Lixia (绔嬪), i.e. "establishment of summer". An example of Western usage would be William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, where the play takes place over the shortest night of the year, which is the summer solstice. In Southern and Southeast Asia where the monsoon occurs, summer is more generally defined as March to May or early June, their warmest time of the year, ending with the onset of the monsoon rains. In most countries children are out of school during this time of year, although dates vary. Some begin as early as mid-May, although in England, from the ages of 5-16, school ends in the middle of July. In the Southern Hemisphere, school holiday dates include the major holidays of Christmas and New Year's Day. Summer school holidays in Australia begin a few days before Christmas and end in late January to mid-February, with the dates varying from state to state. Summer is also the season in which many fruits, vegetables, and other plants are in full growth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/summer... |
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