Pumpkin spice at the ready: Fall officially begins today.
Twice a year, everyone on Earth is seemingly on equal footing -- at least when it comes to the distribution of light and dark.
But during equinoxes, everyone from pole to pole gets to enjoy a 12-hour split of day and night. Well, there's just one rub -- it isn't as perfectly"equal" as you may have been told.12 hours of daylight on the equinox. More on that farther down in the article.Where does the word 'equinox' come from?: The term equinox comes from the Latin word equinoxium, meaning"equality between day and night."The sun rises behind the Washington Monument in the US capital.
"Meteorological fall is different ... in that the dates never change and are based on climatological seasons rather than Earth's angle relative to the sun. These are perhaps the seasons that more people are familiar with," Chinchar says.Meteorological seasons are defined as the following: March 1 to May 31 is spring; June 1 to August 31 is summer; September 1 to November 30 is autumn; and December 1 to February 28 is winter.
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