CHANGE OF SEASONS
EQUINOX NEXT TUESDAY START OF AUTUMN _ The occurrence of the autumnal equinox next. Tuesday marks the passing of the summer season. Although the meteorological season cannot be fixed in advance with any certainty, it has been found that in most localities the actual season coincides fairly closely with the calendar season, which' is arbitrarily attached to the occurrence of equinoxes and solstices. The sun has been to the south of the equator during the past six months, but at midnight next Tuesday it will cross the equator and enter the Northern Hemisphere, and it will move steadily northward until the middle of June, w ien the shortest day will occur. The apparent paradox of the equinox is that day and night should then be of equal lengths all over the globe, but only on sundials will this be true, because the mean time kept by clocks will not next week be exactly the same as the apparent solar time shown on the sundial. _____
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19890, 18 March 1939, Page 18
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166CHANGE OF SEASONS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19890, 18 March 1939, Page 18
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