The meteorological calendar always puts the first day of autumn as September 1, while the astronomical calendar usually sees autumn begin on either 22 or 23 of September.
For me I rather go with the Astonomical date!
No one wants the summer to end three weeks earlier,do they?!
Further more it is the Autumn Equinox on Friday 23 September 2022 in Northern Hemisphere.
In the Southern hemisphere it will be the Spring equinox.
Interesting Facts About Autumn Equinox
- Equinox is an instantaneous phenomenon. ...
- Day and Night are not precisely 12 hours each. ...
- Equinox does not occur on a fixed day. ...
- Equinoxes signal the start of Northern Lights. ...
- Harvest Moon in the Autumnal Equinox. ...
- Autumn Equinox once marked the start of the new year.
When do the clocks go back?
Clocks go back in the UK and British Summer Time (BST) ends and goes back to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
on 30th October in the UK.
The sun will now set at 16:37 GMT in the UK and the sunset will be 2 minutes a day sooner in the Northern hemisphere, until the Winter solstice.
Winter solstice on Wednesday the 21 December, 2022 in Northern Hemisphere will be at 21:47.
In the southern hemisphere the 21st of December, is the summer solstice.
Do the clock go back on the same day in the United States of America?
The answer is no!
The UK and American DSL & the UK's BST do not change on the same day!
In the US the clocks go back on Sunday, 6 November.
An autumnal scene in the UK