Category: Seasons

Winter 2015 Starts Now — Today, Dec. 21, is 2015’s winter solstice which is the day with the fewest hours of sunlight during the whole year.

If this website’s clock is properly synched it is 11:48  p.m.. EST.  and that means winter has started.

The word solstice comes from the Latin words for “sun” and “to stand still.” As per the Old Farmer’s Almanac: In the Northern Hemisphere, as summer advances to winter, the points on the horizon where the Sun rises and sets advance southward each day; the high point in the Sun’s daily path across the sky, which occurs at local noon, also moves southward each day.

At the winter solstice, the Sun’s path has reached its southernmost position. The next day, the path will advance northward. However, a few days before and after the winter solstice, the change is so slight that the Sun’s path seems to stay the same, or stand still. The Sun is directly overhead at “high-noon” on Winter Solstice at the latitude called the Tropic of Capricorn.

Winter 2015 Starts Now

Standard time 2015 starts 2 o’clock tomorrow morning, Nov. 1. Remember to turn your clocks back one hour before going to sleep.

Standard Time 2015 Starts

The 2015 autumnal equinox is right now 4:21 a.m., Sept. 23 according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac as the sun crosses the celestial equator. Fall has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, and the days are now shorter than the nights and will continue to be so until the spring equinox.

The celestial equator is a circle concentric with the actual equator that extends infinitely to space. As the Earth has a 23 degree tilt the the northern half tilts towards the Sun during half its orbit and away the other half. The equinoxes occur when tilt switches.

Autumn 2015

Summer 2015 starts at 12:38 p.m., EDT, June 21, which is right now if our internet service provider’s clock is accurate.

This means that tilt of Earth’s semi-axis is most inclined to the sun in the Northern Hemisphere which is a solstice.

The axis will in a few moments slowly start reversing itself until it is the Southern Hemisphere that is most inclined to the sun.

This would be the start of our winter (and Argentina’s summer).

Today is the longest day of the year.

 Summer 2015 Starts Now

Forget that white stuff this morning that was predicted by Tornado Tom. It is  6:45 p.m.. EDT and that means the vernal equinox has occurred.

That means spring has sprung.

It is porch weather as some might say. Or soon to be anyway.

Regarding the science stuff, the word equinox is Latin words for “equal night.” Days and nights are approximately equal everywhere and the Sun rises and sets due east and west, explains The Old Farmers Almanac. At the equinoxes, the tilt of Earth relative to the Sun is zero, which means that Earth’s axis neither points toward nor away from the Sun.

 Spring 2015 Starts Now

It is 6:03 p.m., EST, Dec. 21, which means winter has started for 2014.

Look at the bright side. The days are going to start getting longer.

Winter 2014 Starts so expect snow

It’s 2  a.m., Sunday Nov. 2. Daylight saving time is over and Standard time has begun.

Hopefully, you remembered to turn your clocks back an hour.

Standard Time Starts Now

Standard time starts and daylight saving  ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2. This is the time of the year when clocks are turned back one hour.

Additionally, everyone is encouraged to check and/or change the batteries on smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors.

Standard Time Starts 2 a.m.

The 2014 autumnal equinox is right now 10:29 p.m. EDT, Sept. 22, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac as the sun crosses the celestial equator. Fall has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, and the days are now shorter than the nights and will continue to be so until the spring equinox.

The celestial equator is a circle concentric with the actual equator that extends infinitely to space. As the Earth has a 23 degree tilt the the northern half tilts towards the Sun during half its orbit and away the other half. The equinoxes occur when tilt switches.

Autumn 2014 Starts Now