Autumn Equinox: Coming Soon

MOTUS A.D. ^ | 9-22-19 | MOTUS

[VanDeKoik]

I take solstice in the fact that Michigan autumns are just as amazing as the summers.

[super7man]

Late September and October are my favorite time of year. The sun is still warm and the air is cool. Something in the morning crispness say football.

[Qiviut]

Love the poem. No author given so I looked it up:

Sarah Helen Power Whitman (1803–1878)

Poem: https://www.bartleby.com/360/7/110.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/whitman-sarah-helen-1803-1878

[Blood of Tyrants]

You know what that means in Tennessee? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Temp for Oct 1, 2019 is predicted to be in the mid 90s. Not a drop of rain in over a month.

[SamAdams76]

It actually hit 36 degrees one morning earlier this week in Redding, CT, I'm been remote starting my car so it's warm when I get into it.

Leaves starting to turn and fall at a rapid pace. This has been a glorious weekend however, temps into the mid 80s. Likely we won't see 80s again until May. Which is normal for this area.

[IronJack]

Beautifully written. The poet deserves a credit.

[bgill]

I love a nice crisp Indian summer morning. Or is that racist?

Globull warming season ends with the beginning of the fall season.

[9422WMR]

“You know what that means in Tennessee? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Temp for Oct 1, 2019 is predicted to be in the mid 90s. ”
Same here in Central Texas. It’s so dry the pasture is cracking with 4-6” wide cracks that may go to China!
But at 6,000 feet altitude it’s 62F. I think I’ll go get the plane and go flying!!

[hoagy62]

Just so everyone knows, the Autumnal Equinox occurs at 12:50am (Pacific Daylight Time) tomorrow morning, Sept. 23rd.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So central Texas didn’t get any rain from Imelda? They got dumped on on the coast.

[Alas Babylon!]

Even worse down here in South Alabama...

[9422WMR]

Have not had a decent rain since mid August, and that was not very much.
It has been a mild summer for Texas with less than half a dozen days over 100F all summer.

[jmacusa]

This is one of my favorite times of the year. As summer ends and autumn begins there is a very soft, almost ethereal light as late afternoon comes on. Artists, the Impressionists, call it ‘’autumnal light’’. It's because of the equinox.

[jmacusa]

So... that means for us on the East Coast it'll be three hours earlier?

[hoagy62]

Equinox at 2:50am Eastern Daylight Time.

[hoagy62]

Correction...3:50am Eastern

[jmacusa]

Standard. For us out here that is. 10 minutes to 4 in the morning. “Sun rises in the east’’ and all that. Man as one gets older one forgets a lot...

[fortes fortuna juvat]

It actually hit 36 degrees one morning earlier this week in Redding, CT,
.............................................
Well here in the mountains of western Maryland, when I checked the outside temperature just before daybreak, it was 38 degrees.

[Yardstick]

I love this time of year but I’m also a little sad to see summer go.

In other words, +1 to what the poet wrote.