Wednesday, September 22, 2021, at 3:20pm Eastern Daylight Time, marks the official end of summer and start of autumn here in the Northern Hemisphere—the Autumnal Equinox, the date that daylight and darkness are equal.
This week in my little corner of the world, right on schedule, we have a delightful taste of the fall weather to come. That crisp feel in the air with cooler temperatures replacing the heat and retched humidity of this summer (as in a couple of days ago) finally shoved aside. That change to cool drier air brought a renewed vigor, a revived energy to replace the lackluster feeling resulting from the summer heat and humidity...at least for me. (Do you get the impression that I don't function well in heat and humidity?)
Just as I love the renewal of life in the spring—bright green new leaves on the trees, colorful flowers, the awakening of nature from winter's long hibernation—I also love the change of the leaves to their brilliant array of fall colors in autumn. This year we've exceeded our average amount of rainfall, so I'm hoping for a more colorful autumn than we've had the last couple of years. I moved a few months ago and now have two large oak trees in my front yard and two large oak trees in my back yard. And across the street from me is a small park-like area of grass and trees (maintained by the city). I'm anticipating some lovely fall color views.
I can say with all sincerity that I'm happy to welcome the end of summer. Oh, yeah…also happy to welcome the start of fall. But it's mostly the end of summer's heat and humidity that thrills me. I do have to admit that the summer of 2021 was a strange mixture of several consecutive triple digit temperature days and periods of cooler temperatures that dipped back down into the mid 90s. However, we did have many super high humidity days that went along with the triple digit temperatures for dangerous heat warnings. Ugh!
Welcome autumn...I'm thrilled to see you! But, on the other hand, I'm hoping for a mild winter.
2 comments:
I'm also glad to leave the heat and humidity behind. Just yesterday we were still in the high 80s and tonight we're down to 61. Might not get out of the 60s later this week. I love summer but this year it has been a little much. Welcome Fall!
Lucy: Same here. Last Tuesday and Wednesday the temperature was in the 70s. Tomorrow is supposed to be the mid 90s. Hopefully with this Friday being the first of October, the 90s will be gone until next summer.
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