False Autumn 2022

By the meteorological calendar, the first day of autumn is always 1 September; ending on 30 November. The seasons are defined as spring (March, April, May), summer (June, July, August), autumn (September, October, November) and winter (December, January, February).

We're on a meteorological thread QED. I'm sure there's a dedicated thread for discussing the seasons, where your posts should be.

You bring this same argument to every thread Orion, obsessive behaviour. For such a creative soul with incredulous imagination you seem to have nothing else in your life bar arguing when seasons begin and end. It's not healthy. You exploded on a meteorology thread, with colourful language, when someone used the term 'British Isles' as a geographical one a while back. Your posts were very coarse and not something you'd forget if read.

Everything you say is complete waffle, Elvis Presley singing If I Can Dream, St. Francis, reading observations with heart (I'll go out and read today's temperature as 30C because my heart wills it)🙄 You're hijacking a lot of threads. It's all very fine to say ignore you but it can be hard when there's a new condescending essay up every time you log into the weather forum.

Criticising people calling them 'intellectually bankrupt', 'dour'. You're not Bob Dylan, Brian Cox, Akiane Kramarik.. You have to know a person before you call them intellectually bankrupt. And at least back it up with some achievements of your own to put you in such an exalted place where you can judge others. Because all I see is an internet forum crank with too much time on his hands.

Can you not disagree without insulting? What does it matter if some of us see things differently from you? And we do not sign any commitment when we come here to adhere to the met office rules. Or to respect them or insult free thinkers. I do not see the seasons as the met office does either. Just the day by day weather, which does not adhere to the met office rules.. Love hearing how they saw this in previous eras too

Signing out now! Be at peace please.

It's not the forum Grace. And said poster is posting this nonsense in every thread and can eff and blind and be far more insulting than me. It might be new to you but most of us have seen this poster hijack threads before.

When a new innovation appears and delights the observer, it has little to do with the innovator but the truth behind the innovation-

"When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. And thus this benefit renders him pleasing to us, besides that such community of intellect as we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love." Pascal

The new explanation of the seasons, which includes the present approach of the Earth's North and South poles to the planet's divisor (dividing light and dark hemispheres), is also a meteorological event as well as an astronomical event.

It will be three weeks before the Sun comes into view as the entire surface of the planet turns parallel to the orbital plane and the North/South poles lies on the divisor-

If you come back around the March Equinox, the daily rotation of the Earth will turn Southwest to Northeast and all these things need a proper narrative and a proper platform to express these things.

I wouldn't be so exercised on account of academics, they couldn't care less about cheerleaders even if they need them. Have some soul for a change and that all nature is appreciated through a balance of perception(heart) and reasoning (head).

The seasonal terms follow the timekeeping principles of AM and PM which are anchored to midday. There is no astronomical midday and meteorological midday and neither is there a meteorological Autumn nor the new rubbish of a false autumn invented to distract from June Solstice or midsummer as the anchor for the seasons and the dynamics behind it.

It is a question as to who values their ability to reason with discipline and integrity.

Time to get out of here!!

'And would sec in your username mean the term second that academics use to describe a fragment of time? Is time real or just a human construction made up by man to synchronise with the zodiac concept of when Jupiter passes Pluto? I get great joy from the planets when I learn to feel from my heart again and I'm not restricted by the myopic concept of the unimaginative. At this point in time the tune below really expresses the joie de vivre I feel after consulting with Tycho Brahe, Copernicus and Keppler...and not forgetting my close personal friend Pascal'.

Younger people suffer from what the poet William Blake called 'Newton's sleep' or the inability to distinguish time from timekeeping and the seasons are very much part of timekeeping. Invented terms conjured out of nothing are the basis of many ills and it all began with an attempt to mesmerise an audience with phrases like absolute/relative time, space and motion-

Readers would quickly give up as that is the intention in order to appear as though it is spoken with authority and integrity when it is merely manipulation and bluffing designed to make the reader look inconsequential. What is clockwork solar system modelling is the antecedent to climate change modelling among other things and has become dominant in our era as demonstrated so many times before. It is because I am familiar with all the ancient timekeeping references that I can untangle all the falsehoods acquired up to now including the inability to correlate one rotation with one 24 hour day. For as long as I can remember, I knew I was dealing with a subculture with very specific objectives and self-defending mechanisms.

The Met Eireann forecasters can insist that tomorrow is the first day of meteorological autumn just as people can insist on a false autumn, however, another group of meteorologists will insist the first day of Autumn is on the September Equinox. I do not have that quandary as I follow the proper principles inherited through the ages, even if people have forgotten about them.

The American meteorologists will laugh at the insistence that tomorrow is the beginning of Autumn and declare it a 'false autumn' on that account as theirs begins September 22nd. The two long range threads go out of their way to insist summer is about to end so their quarrel is with the Americans or the Americans with them in a mutual disgrace.

The Met Eireann meteorologist gave an extended explanation as to why this is the first day of meteorological autumn as opposed to a false autumn in August by asserting that the construct is organised around the warmest months. This flawed reasoning would set up a silly notion of meteorological v astronomical noon as thermal responses put the warmest part of the day as 2PM-4PM whereas midday, like midsummer, is a specific event based on dynamics that centres the middle of the day at noon and the middle of summer on the June Solstice.

It is perceptual weakness that creates monstrosities like climate change modelling, a growing type of autism in society which is increasingly separated from cause and effect as it actually exists. When shown how academics choose to explain the seasons by manipulating imaging as an assault on the eyes and mind, there seems to be no pushback and that is remarkable and a poor sign-

Maybe some day, the same meteorologists will inform society about meteorological noon, just as they now conjure false autumn or meteorological autumn into existence.

I deal with the cause of seasonal changes and that includes the thermal responses of the atmosphere, landmass and oceans to the underlying causes found in the daily and annual motions of the Earth. There are specific milestones that mirror the daily rotational traits hence the constraints applied and the lack of room to conjure up unproductive definitions like 'false autumn' or 'meteorological autumn'.

In this respect, I do not see silence among readers, I see either a lack of responsibility or a growing type of autism which is even more disturbing, after all, the NASA explanation for the seasons seen from space surpasses a flat Earth projection by many magnitudes. There is nothing difficult in determining the dynamical cause of the seasons because it can be visibly affirmed through observations of the other planets and especially Uranus-

The dark hemisphere of the planet is absent so it is possible to discern two surface rotations acting in combination, the same ones operating on the surface of the Earth. Come to appreciate those two surface rotations and the seasons define themselves so not being capable of interpreting them properly is an internal failure of the people viewing it and, once again, the main thing is that it is not even difficult.

" You were asked to define the seasons, how many we have in Ireland, when they begin and end."

I normally deal with the cause of seasonal changes as a point of departure for proper climate research and that means dealing with technical issues back 500 years ago. Although the cause of the seasons is fairly straightforward, untangling less productive approaches or the downright vandalism of clockwork solar system modellers is complicated insofar as terms like 'false autumn' or 'meteorological autumn' are products of undisciplined minds as is climate change modelling.

Just for you, if you have quite finished with your reactions. The explanation is done as the observers would have seen it without the need to appeal to planetary dynamics while using the modern calendar for familiarity and convenience.

The farmers in Ireland 6,000 years ago broke the year into a light half and a dark half with Samhain ('darker half' in Gaelic) beginning the new year, while the beginning of May represented the light half for the following 6 months. Although it is called the calendar of the Celts, it is many, many centuries older going back to the first farmers after the end of the ice age.

As Samhain begins the new year with the declination of the Sun towards its smallest arc on the December Solstice, the first ancient alignments were not just towards Samhain at the beginning of November but also towards the beginning of February as the Sun noticeably increases its arc in Spring three months later-

Having established a three month period from November to February, the midpoint is the December Solstice with a very precise alignment of Newgrange that would not work at any other time of the year as the declination is too rapid to have an elaborate roofbox and the other components of that amazing spectacle.

Having determined that the Solstice alignment is the midpoint of the seasons, it extends to all other seasonal Solstice/Equinox milestones by default and meshes neatly with the light and dark halves of the year.

The rest of the stuff about career and salary is quaint as some human endeavours such as musical composition come as a vocation so it is exercised as a gift or a talent. All people have talents to be inspired or inspiring but choose to play safe so lose their God-given ability to influence wider society as individuals.

The old traditions on the island were both exact and colourful so your reaction is typical of a growing disconnect between you as a human participating in the great cycles and the narrow perspectives you inhabit.

Thanks to these people who at least try to appreciate what we inherit in the landscape as annual timekeeping markers. The seasons themselves are the same as the daily timekeeping markers in some respects with special attention to thermal responses after midday and midsummer.

The idea that a witch governs the Sun from Samhain until Brigid recovers the Sun in February reflects the Southern declination of the Sun in November matched with the Northern declination in February as daylight lengths really start to gather pace as both November and February share the same alignment. So now readers know how our ancestors divided the seasons by light and dark halves while the planetary milestones of the Solstices and Equinoxes acted as midpoints if 4 divisions are chosen, in this case, Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine and Lughnasa.

I don't do personal analysis and prefer to entertain people with genuine insights they can easily come to appreciate and while some of them are new and original, many are also quite old like the seasonal divisions on this island.

If it is any help, the reactions I see are not responses, but a self-protecting state that some know as 'Newton's sleep'-

I pulled that from the first website as it is a specialist who recognise some people will get it while others will not. I actually know what Sir Isaac tried to do and why it is entirely disruptive as a subculture, the same one that apes your type of comments.

Equating the fall of an apple with planetary motions or equating conditions in a common greenhouse with the planet's atmosphere is a symptom of this 'sleep' and the manufactured terms and voodoo surrounding this self-inflicted incapacity.

For the moment, this is about enjoying how the divisions of the seasons is part of a beautiful heritage of this island using exquisite reasoning and I hope those who can, will delight in how it was done.