I had to google “low desert” to find out it’s a California term. Utah’s deserts are between 4,000 and 5,000 ft.
Northern Utah has much colder winters than the Southern Utah ones, and the temperature extremes are reversed in the summer.
Rhode Island has no love for Frankie Valli.
What most people think of. Snow in winter, cool weather with lots of colorful leaves in the fall, etc.
That’s what the four seasons mean in the northern part of the US, but it’s not universal.
And even Alabama has a ski area in the northern hills, they typically have natural snow a few times a year.
Northern Territory has two … Wet and Dry
Same goes for Melbourne, and the rest of Victoria.
Most of “The South” has four distinct seasons. They may be briefer or more or less harsh than in other places, but they exist.
We have seasons, they just have different names
Flood, mud, fire, and earthquake.
Yea, New England says the South doesn’t have a “real Winter” and the South responds that New England doesn’t have a “real Summer.”
I forgot to add that many Southerners think the “Four distinct seasons” is the Northern positive-spin marketing phrase for “It is God-awful cold here for 5 months of the year” or “See these biceps? I got them from shoveling 90 inches of snow.”
Well, sure. But try defining them in southern AZ
Winter: December and January. Sunny and cool. It can get below freezing, and even snow at the higher elevations, but it doesn’t last a day, and it’s mid 50s in the afternoon. It can rain, but don’t count on it.
Spring. Feb- April. Sunny and warm. Highs in the 70s-90s, lows in the 40-50s. It can rain, but don’t count on it. If it does, wildflowers bloom. That’s something. Overcast days are possible.
Arizona: May-Sept. Sunny and HOT. Highs in the 110s, lows in the 90s. During July, we get monsoons - heavy afternoon rains. Other than that - clear skies and no precipitation at all for months.
Fall: Sept-Dec. Sunny and mostly hot. Highs in the low 100s, lows in the mid-80s.
Or, the “two season” POV. Nov-April: Snowbirds. April-Nov. No snowbirds.
Vermont does too have a summer.
Last year, it came on a Thursday.
Yeah, but for some areas there isn’t a sharp demarcation between them. I moved from southern California to Ohio and, while I knew that I’d be seeing a real autumn, I wasn’t really prepared for spring, which was amazingly green all of a sudden.
Now I’m in northern California, so I’m back where seasons sort of slouch into each other. Except for the times when it suddenly turns hot and stays that way. But that isn’t every year.
I once hit that two weeks of hot while in Washington. You forgot to say that it’s also wet then.
I thought that was the apocalypse. :smack:
Since there’s no scientific definition of seasons, let’s move this to IMHO.
Colibri
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Sorry, but I disagree about Oregon and Washington. We have four very distinct seasons.
In my experience, Southern California has only two seasons: dry (nine months of the year) and cooler with some rain (three months of the year).
Idaho and Utah have two seasons, summer and winter, and two ten-day transitional periods (not true seasons), kinda-spring and kinda-fall.
As an aside, the old Japanese system, based on a Chinese system, has 72 micro-seasons. There is an app for tracking them, and it is quite illuminating.
Not sure if you are attempting a joke here, but it’s definitely not the case.
Here are the average temperatures and precipitation per month in Salt Lake.
When I lived in Missouri, we said the same thing. It went from fucking cold to fucking hot with hardly a stop in between.
Hawaii has a “winter”. During January and the first half on February temperatures can dip into the low 60’s, both bananas and papayas take significantly longer to ripen on their respective trees during this time…