False Autumn 2022

" Consider me one who proudly does live with their head in the clouds and I need things explained to me on that level. Anything below that and my mind just registers it as extreme, unnecessary dullness."

That is more or less a description of a subculture so all the visual explaining is likely to go nowhere insofar as disturbing people with their heads in the clouds is quite painful for them and gets worse with each succeeding generation as the joyless reactions received in this thread demonstrates.

Anticipating events based on cyclical weather coincident with cyclical dynamics should be a foundation first and foremost as opposed to predicting individual events like upcoming storms or heatwaves. Of course you register this as extreme dullness, nevertheless, students would be proud to appreciate how climate and cyclical weather are anchored in planetary dynamics while enjoying and using short term weather predictions as I do.

Disturbing the notions of astronomical autumn, meteorological autumn, false autumn and so on will register as extreme dullness to those who invent those unnecessary terms while it is rare that those surveying the heritage of this island will enjoy the reasons why our ancestors divided the year into a light/dark halves while retaining the four divisions of Samhain, Imbolc, Bealtaine and Lughnasa within that framework.

Anticipation is associated with hope, whereas dire predictions are an awful strain on humanity when framed as a false narrative (climate change modelling).

The BBC meteorologist announced that today is the beginning of astronomical autumn on the Equinox so that would make the beginning of winter on the December Solstice. Many complaints that planetary dynamics does not belong in a meteorology forum would seem hypocritical considering what a mess such a perspective would have between the motions of the planet and cyclical weather such as the seasons.

The sense of occasion may be lost, including the wonderful alignment at Loughcrew, Co Meath when the Sun shines directly into the monument along with other alignments at Knowth and perhaps many other places. My own personal favourite in Clogherhead, Co Louth-

There are specific milestones which make the summer Solstice or midsummer on June 21st as the anchor for all the other seasons as this is when the North pole is at midday or noon, just as daily rotation places noon when a location is midway to the planet's divisor. After these two events, temperatures continue to rise as a signature of people who appreciate the daily and seasonal divisions properly.