As an example, where I live near the equator we have seasons that are only a few weeks long. We alternate between “summer” and “winter”. The quotes are because the only real difference in our seasons is how much rain falls since neither the temperature nor the amount of daylight changes much. Winter seasons are cloudy and wet and summer seasons are sunny and dry.
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AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, summer and winter are reversed in the southern hemisphere.
But more than that: the seasons aren’t even consistent across each hemisphere—the exact beginning and ending dates of each season vary from region to region depending on the local climate.
teft@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 month ago
Yeah if you think about it the idea of 4 seasons permeating culture has more to do with European colonization than anything scientific.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, here in Austria we get about a day of skiing less per year since the 2000s.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, for the northern hemisphere people, yes, Australia has snow.
waggz@programming.dev 1 month ago
also for Americans, Austria is not Australia
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So was that a comment from an Austrian thinking the Australian posts was about Austria? Or was that an Australian who misspelled their country’s name? Or was that an Austrian who knew the post was about Australia, but they just wanted to talk about Austria?
Meron35@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The concept for 4 seasons itself is very Eurocentric, and leads to the inaccurate belief that the seasons/climate is messy and unpredictable in Australia.
The native aboriginal peoples have their own season system for each region, which much more accurately describes the weather. For example, the aboriginal calendar identifies 6 seasons in Victoria.
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Signfeld@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s actually really interesting, I had no idea. Do you have a link with the page to that image? It got jpeg’d and I’d like to read more.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
[found it] (australiassouthwest.com/six-seasons-of-the-south-…) the webpage it appears to have originally come from described it as being the Noongar 6 season calendar so the names on this chart are Noongar words from South Western Australia not from Victoria which is the South East, so maybe theirs are different.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 month ago
www.csiro.au/en/research/…/calendars
Is some good ones.
Each mob basically has its own calendar, so you’re looking at tens or hundreds for the country. That one above for Victoria is different to my part of Victoria.