{"id":732,"date":"2014-09-05T15:41:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=732"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:15:35","slug":"why-does-meteorological-fall-start-on-september-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/why-does-meteorological-fall-start-on-september-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does meteorological fall start on September 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For meteorologists, fall runs from September 1 to November 30.\u00a0 We are often asked why we don&#8217;t use the astronomical fall calendar for our calculations (this year astronomical fall starts on September 22).\u00a0 The answer is a combination of convenience and providing the best match between the calendar and the seasonal characteristics.\u00a0 A good explanation can be found on the Capital Weather Gang blog at the <em>Washington Post<\/em> <a title=\"Meteorological vs astronomical fall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/wp\/2014\/09\/05\/meteorological-vs-astronomical-seasons-which-is-more-useful\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For meteorologists, fall runs from September 1 to November 30.\u00a0 We are often asked why we don&#8217;t use the astronomical fall calendar for our calculations (this year astronomical fall starts on September 22).\u00a0 The answer is a combination of convenience and providing the best match between the calendar and the seasonal characteristics.\u00a0 A good explanation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22804,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/22804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}