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Earth appears to be developing new never-before-seen human-made seasons, study finds
(www.livescience.com)
this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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I don't entirely disagree with their reasoning, but seasons are defined by the rotation and tilt of the Earth.
That's only tenuously true. They're mainly driven by earth's orientation, sure, but if that was all then you wouldn't get regional variations in seasons (like the wet & dry seasons some places get, rather than the 4 we get in most places).
It would also be impossible for winter to come early, and you ask any farmer they'll tell you that's a thing which happens
Seasons are more regional and varied than you might think
These are astronomical seasons but around the world the much more usefull definition is a (annually) repeating weather pattern. There are rain and dry seasons that may be related to the monsoon rains or may be related to wind patterns pushing clouds away from/to a place. The amazon has wet/dry seasons (not rain season) that describe the water level and is dependent on the rain in the Andes mountains and not the monsoon rains...
Nobody cares if "today is the astronomical start of summer" if it is still cold and rainy. You say summer starts when it gets hot and dry (apply your regional variant of summer here).
There are both astronomical and meteorological seasons.
Astronomical summer is June 21 to September 22. Meteorological summer is June July and August.
They also talk about winter sport season, breeding season and growing season. Everything is a season!