"one swallow does not a summer make" we've all heard the saying but for you personally what marks the beginning of summer? Is it the return of swallow to your home, ditching your woolly jumper, the hoards of caravans clogging the roads etc or is it just a calender date?
Where I live, summer starts when the heat arrives. Days in the 90s (Fahrenheit) and sometimes up to 110. Clear skies, no rain from roughly May - October. The wild grasses turn golden. We don't have a central AC system at our house, so I have to get my evaporative (swamp) cooler up and running for the season and we sometimes run our window air conditioner in the bedroom at night.
Summer isn't my thing anymore. I didn't mind it at all when I was a kid. I rode my bike, played sports all day and never gave a second thought to the temp. I could walk on hot asphalt or burning sand in my bare feet. Even into my late 40s I lived close to the ocean in southern California, so the breeze was really refreshing and I didn't mind the hot sun. I used to spend half my time at the beach during the summers and loved it.
Once I moved to the western Sierra Nevada foothills where I live now, summer became my least favorite season. My favorite season here is spring. Days in the 70s and nights in the 50s. I look forward to the end of winter when flowers start blooming, fresh green leaves emerge from the trees and bushes, wild animals and their babies come out, bees and butterflies become active. Life returns. Big puffy clouds, cool breezes, just the right amount of rain. Everything is fresh. The view from my house looks like Ireland for a couple months. I wish it lasted longer.
Invariably the start of June, this year the Jubilee will be prime mark point.
often it’s the Summer Solstice as we have a party.
The 100% definite is the start of school holidays (6 July this year).
Around here you can also look at tourist numbers, as they migrate back to the North, you notice an increase in caravans and motor homes and strange accents.
Also walking back from the pub or someone’s house at 2am and it’s fairly light.
You also see young deer etc as a sign of summer.
Also other young animals venturing out on their own or with siblings and not parents
I can never really tell. I actually hate summer… We don’t really have seasons where I am, it kinda fluctuates annually between warmish-to-hot half the year, then to mind boggling blast furnace, hells-cape hot for the rest. They start pushing the beachwear, & pool gear, & flip flops, & BBQ shit like as soon as Valentines Day wraps up, well before Easter. I measure it by whether or not I have turned my AC on yet, that’s mainly when the ‘Oh shit, it’s summer again’ thought pops in my mind — so according to that, summer has arrived a few weeks ago.
Officially, June 20 or 21, I can never remember which one. In the US Memorial Day marks the Unofficial start, and it sure feels like it weatherwise. But regardless, I suffer from OCD, so I appreciate that you Europeans actually have your summer vacation, in the summer.
Speaking of Europeans, did you know that your ancestors made it to North America, a few centuries before Columbus? I guess they scared the shit out of the Native people who called them, "The Moon People", and thought they were from outerspace.
So yeah, we have proof. They've found Welsh style structures in North America, that match the description of the ones given by the Native people.
Astronomically, the Summer season in the Northern Hemisphere starts on the June solstice and ends on the September equinox. In the Southern Hemisphere it's the opposite, from the December solstice to the March equinox.
In the US, the Summer vacation season runs from Memorial Day (about May 30) to Labor Day (about September 1)
I'll be cleaning off ny grill this month and having a BBQ party weekend on the Jubilee weekend at the beginning of June, that will kick off my summer this year.
According to the calendar the first day of summer is June 21. I think we are going to be late this year here. Spring didn't even get here yet. We still have snow on the ground & we will most likely still be ice fishing near the end of May.
Unofficially when the Spring school term ends (for students), or Memorial Day weekend (end of May). For some in the Midwest USA it begins when it gets hot and humid enough we have to run the air conditioner all day and night.
For me, I consider summer to have started if not only we're approaching the warm season, but also if there is consistency in warm and sunny days. Here in the Netherlands, it is often rainy or cloudy even in high seasons.
Summer comes directly after winter, between 20-31 May. Spring doesn't really exists anymore. The day I switch my gas heater in summer mode is the day I activate air conditioner compressor.
I think it's on June 20th or 21st. In the northern hemisphere, the first day of the summer season is the day of the year when the Sun is farthest north. This day is known as the Summer Solstice.
The smells for me. Around sunset, for extremely hot months, there is a “summer smell” on the wind, as everything hot is cooling off. There is a different scent like this for every season.
I have a friend from school that has lived in Perth Australia now for close to 35 years. I know it's summer when he bams me through a text. 6 months later I bam him!
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