Why is august the start of autumn in Ireland and not the rest of Europe.

Victor wrote: »

Seasons are a social construct as much as a meteorological one. Some places have as many as 7 seasons.

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Did you just assume my season?

Mutant z wrote: »

Does anyone find it odd why in Ireland august is the start of autumn while in the UK, and elsewhere in Europe it is still summer, in Ireland the different seasons start a month earlier than everywhere else, why is that.

Just look out the window

OldMrBrennan83

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Dr Turk Turkelton

railer201 wrote: »

Just look out the window

So you're saying it's winter?

Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »

So you're saying it's winter?

No, Autumn - how anyone could deem today to be a summer's day is beyond me

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Tis the season to be Jolly

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Not yet, come back in three months time.

yesto24

Who said seasons had to be 3 months long?

Cubik

railer201 wrote: »

No, Autumn - how anyone could deem today to be a summer's day is beyond me

But it can be like this in June or July. Cloudy and rainy weather can be very warm. Not that it isn't crap.

goose2005

knickerbocker wrote: »

Seasons are as follows:
Spring- March 21st to June 20th
Summer- June 21st to September 20th
Autumn- September 21st to December 20th
Winter - December 21st to March 20th.

Equinox and solstice.

those are roman seasons, not the same as celtic seasons

Mutant z

railer201 wrote: »

No, Autumn - how anyone could deem today to be a summer's day is beyond me

You can get bad weather in the summer you know, it doesnt mean it isn't summer.

Ubbquittious wrote: »

The EU pen pushers have swooped in and taken so much of our individuality and our culture and now we can't even have our own fecking summers anymore?

I think this is the last straw. If they try to force us to harmonise our summers we should vote to have an Ixit. I already have beef with them over the foreign sunny weather they have been sending our direction.

And this entertaining pisstake is brought to you compliments of the nether regions of Brexiters' Europhobia.

Cubik wrote: »

But it can be like this in June or July. Cloudy and rainy weather can be very warm. Not that it isn't crap.

Some summers are only summers in theory, in practice there is no guarantee of consistently hot sunny weather in Ireland in any of the summer months.

Today is Autumnal to me - 15 deg C and wet. So in theory the weather fits August being described as an Autumn month.

railer201 wrote: »

Some summers are only summers in theory, in practice there is no guarantee of consistently hot sunny weather in Ireland in any of the summer months.
Today is Autumnal to me - 15 deg C and wet. So in theory the weather fits August being described as an Autumn month.

We had days like that in May though too... that'd mean summer is June and July only???

odyssey06 wrote: »

We had days like that in May though too... that'd mean summer is June and July only???

Could be - it's an unpredictable season in Ireland, some years it hasn't arrived at all hardly - just a few token sunny days here and there. August now appears to have settled down to persistent low pressure weather with cumulonimbus clouds forming to provide continuous showery weather from the Atlantic. I have a weather eye out for a return of high pressure but I'm not hopeful at this stage.

freshpopcorn

Even Argos says it's Autumn now!

Ubbquittious

Deleted User wrote: »

And this entertaining pisstake is brought to you compliments of the nether regions of Brexiters' Europhobia.

Ixiters.

OldMrBrennan83

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Ubbquittious wrote: »

Ixiters.

Surely it has to be Ire-exit ... but if we really want to annoy EU-crats, we should just stay where we are and never change ... thorn at my side and all that!

odyssey06 wrote: »

Surely it has to be Ire-exit ... but if we really want to annoy EU-crats, we should just stay where we are and never change ... thorn at my side and all that!

Surmising you're Irish and not English/British, why would you want to do that? What has the EU ever done to you or your people?

OldMrBrennan83

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Deleted User wrote: »

Surmising you're Irish and not English/British, why would you want to do that? What has the EU ever done to you or your people?

Sure they built some nice roads, but so did the Romans.
It was still the Roman Empire.
They're as bad as the Catholic 'universal' Church.

For starters, where are all our fish gone?
Then there was the euro.
Then there was austerity.
Then there was the horror that is Phil Hogan, EU Commissioner.

They better not start messing with our seasons or clocks, one size doesn't fit all and the seasons as seen from Ireland are not those seen in Denmark or Poland.

Patww79 wrote: »

What had they ever done to Britain? Their exit was just so they could go more national front and kick out the 'dirty forrins'.

Being Irish he wouldn't have to be brainwashed by the incessant Europhobia of the British print media (Guardian/Observer/Independent excepted) and the space given to vociferous rightwing Tory politicians who scapegoat the EU for Britain's demise since 1945. Or indeed who never tell the truth about how Britain has benefited hugely from EU membership and how it was British politicians who opted out of EU immigration restrictions to take in more immigrants for their economy - most obviously in 2004 when Poland etc joined the EU. Culturally for nationalistic reasons large numbers of British people have been raised on lies about the EU that Irish people have not been raised on. Therefore Europhobia would be more surprising/inexplicable from an Irish person.

ZeroThreat

Imallrightjack wrote: »

Theres only one season in Ireland.the ****ing rainy season.

There's a warm rain season, and a cold rain season.

Right2Write

murpho999 wrote: »

Today is climatically not Autumn, it's still Summer and will be until mid September.

What planet/ continent do you live on

Looking at the ditches round here today, I see blackberries ripening and the rowans are coming red etc. Hardly signs of summer.

I agree that the beginning of August is usually more summer like but the end of August is definitely autumn in Ireland. The turn is somewhere in the middle weeks of the month.

Maybe we need to expand our terminology a little...
June and July and clearly 'high' or 'peak' summer.
May is spring summer.
August is summer autumn.
September is late summer (?) or low autumn (?) or ???
October is peak autumn.
November is autumn winter.
December and January is winter.
February is winter spring.
March and April are spring.