Wow, I didn’t think the weather would vary so much - where it’s so warm here I somewhat stupidly presumed it would be warm everywhere lol
Wouldn’t it be nice to teleport…… I’ll have a couple of days with PP in OZ, then move on to Portugal with mascaratumB, then it’s Poland with spit, over to the states to - we’ll move from cold snow to warm and end up with Raccoon frying, then to Thailand! Nice week of travel!
Interesting for this topic to come up two days after April 21st, one third of the way from March 21st to June 21st. That means that for the northern hemisphere, north of the tropic of cancer, and south of the arctic circle, the solar angle is three-quarters (75%) of the way from the lowest on December 21st to the highest on June 21st.
So, for those of us who are located at a latitude from 23 1/2 degrees to 66 1/2 degrees latitude, this is the end of Astronomical spring and the beginning of Astronomical summer. After four more months, the four month long Astronomical summer will end, and the two month long Astronomical Autumn will begin on September 21st.
Because the arcsine of 1/2 is not 45 degrees, but instead is 30 degrees, the top quadrille of daily average temperatures occur in a four month period, and the second and third quadrille of daily average temperatures each occur in a two month period. Four months for Astronomical winter, too. So, if it seems that middle range temperatures occur only one sixth of the time, twice a year for a total of one third of the year, that is because that is what actually happens for people who are located between the tropic of cancer and the arctic circle. Lowest quadrille temperatures occur one-third of the year, and highest quadrille temperatures occur one-third of the year, due to the sinusoidal, not linear change of the annual solar angle.
Btw, today's weather around mid afternoon ranged from partly wintry through springy to partly summery.
Same old, same old for the start of the autumn/winter drought: temperatures between 19 and 32-34ºC, humidity between 60 and 30%, all depending on the time of day. Can’t wait for October to be here again already.
84 degrees here in the Central Valley of California right now which would be nice except for there being a 15 mph wind, Which is blowing all this damn pollen around and messing with people’s allergies.
Sounds awesome Chris - I love Miami! In Wisconsin we’re still trying to get through Spring. Some days it’s in the 60s (Fahrenheit), others it’s in the 30s with snow flurries.