Why Seasons Make No Sense

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[@besmart]

Every year on Groundhog Day (Feb. 2), people pull a marmot/woodchuck/groundhog/whistle pig out of a box and ask it when winter will end. Not surprisingly, this is a poor seasonal climate prediction system. But the ACTUAL seasons on the calendar don't make much sense either. Here's why!

[@nikhilwardrobe]

+It's Okay To Be Smart your videos are short and informative but everything doesn't sink in...if the videos are 5-10 min that would be great and it makes time soak all up

[@Theiph]

+It's Okay To Be Smart My birthday is on Groundhog Day.

[@Theiph]

+Jay Zee But why specifically "Jerry"?

[@sharifulislam-tx3vj]

+It's Okay To Be Smart in bangladesh theres 7 seasons december20-march6winter march7- april11spring april12-june21summer june22-sept8 wetseason sept9nov30 dryseason dec1-9 earlyfall dec10-19latefall

[@fmlAllthetime]

Super interesting video. I like the cultural perspective, including the environment they were from. Really, great video.

[@shade9592]

In the Philippines where I live there are also four seasons; cool, bloody fucking hot, bloody fucking wet, and warm with a chance of super typhoons.

[@ernodios]

what an adventure isn't it?

[@theActionzgroove]

+Yoseob Yang no

[@johnsebastianursal2568]

+shade_grey yep true

[@awkndr1524]

No, no, no! We have bloody hot, bloody fucking hot, quite cool, and bloody fucking rainy.

[@baabaaer]

+shade_grey You forgot durian season.

[@JoelReid]

I used to teach science in North West Australia, One day I looked out the window and said "a cyclone is coming next week". Most of the class laughed and said that it was too early in the year for a cyclone (cyclones usually started at Christmas, not the start of December) and the weather forcast was denying the local low pressure would turn into one, but the indigenous students looked surprised and asked how I knew the same as what their elders were saying... my response: "The corellas (a type of parrot) have left town and the wind is going the wrong way." ... and yes, a cyclone hit the next week, a full two weeks before they usually do.

[@JoelReid]

by the way, how did I learn about such a link? Simple observation of nature the year before.

[@zeke1220]

How did you observe a pattern over the course of only one year? O.o

[@JoelReid]

zeke1220​ Because there are multiple cyclones in a single year. I was watching for cyclones, not seasons... I was not being biased about my observation just due to the time of year, rather I was basing it on the natural responses and results.

[@OLR1337]

yall have natives in your classes?

[@JoelReid]

harold ryan I do not teach "natives". that is usually thought of as a derogatory term in Australia because it has connontations to flora and fauna. I have "indigenous people", or "Aboriginal Australians" in my classes.

[@macdege6754]

Ohio has five seasons. Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Road Construction.

[@ephraimkwon66]

LMAO

[@joeskis]

Every state says that.

[@macdege6754]

joeskis lol, that's because it's a legitimate season! (:

[@DBZHGWgamer]

No, road construction happens year round. Its the only season that doesn't end.

[@Priestofgoddess]

If it gets to cold, they surely stop constructing.

[@SpySappingMyKeyboard]

In New Zealand, we have two seasons. 'Windy' and 'wet and windy'.

[@psdaengr911]

If you don't like it, check out Costa Rica.

[@101jir]

This video is titled "why seasons make no sense," and then goes on to explain how they make perfect sense given various definitions.

[@chrisbotos]

No it doesn't...

[@Jisim33]

@LetMeSeeThis99 well the video itself is like clickbait but the title isnt??????

[@Silentgrace11]

Well, saying: “why seasons seem to make no sense but actually make a lot of sense” is a bit too wordy, so I don’t blame them there. I just usually assume it’s intended to be a question most people ask regularly (I know I do), not that they intend to just rant about how it makes no sense. After all, the channel is called It’s Okay to be Smart, not It’s Okay to be a Smartass ;)

[@naturegirl1999]

@@SimonWoodburyForget public broadcast systrm

[@sabikikasuko6636]

Take make perfect sense, for the circumediterranean territory that was the Roman empire. Last time I checked my Argentinian ass wasn't in the Roman empire, in fact we're pretty damn far from them, both in space AND time.

[@EugeneKhutoryansky]

In places like Florida, there are only two seasons. Paradise and summer.

[@Dexios_Divine]

+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky I think you mean moist, and dust dry

[@IceMetalPunk]

+Dexios S. Divine No, it's never dry here. Our two seasons are boiling and flood warning.

[@Dexios_Divine]

IceMetalPunk where i live, near orlando with no lakes near by, it gets dry as fuck in the fall and summer

[@theJellyjoker]

+Dexios S. Divine Central FL can get pretty dry, coastal FL is either drenched or moist.

[@IceMetalPunk]

Dexios S. Divine Ah, right. Northern Florida. I'm used to South Florida weather. I sometimes forget you guys aren't just South Georgia :P

[@giovannirafael5351]

"Why seasons make no sense". Yeah, sorry I live in a equatorial area so we only know heat and rain. That's our seasons lol.

[@sapphirequeencrybaby5135]

Lol me too

[@Sinnbad21]

@@sapphirequeencrybaby5135 which country?

[@anthonyhewitt9397]

Im in the middle of winter. Its always cold and I'm always miserable bc of it. Be thankful you can go outside without being in agony.

[@mosesjoe3763]

CLIMATES from POLE to EQUATOR 🌐 🌲 Frigid, Arctic, Polar: - ❄️ Winter all year round - ⚪️ Day = 6 months of sunlight - ⚫️ Night = 6 months of darkness 🌳🌲 Subarctic Seasonal: - ❄️ strong long Winters - ☀️ mild short Summers 🌳 Temperate Seasonal: - ❄️ Winter = short days, Long nights - 🌸 Spring = equal days and nights - ☀️ Summer = long days, short nights - 🍁 Autumn = equal days and nights 🌳🌴 Subtropic Seasonal: - ☀️ strong long Summers - ❄️ mild short Winters 🌴 Torrid, Tropic, Equatorial: - ☀️ Summer all year round - 💧 Wet = monsoon weather - 🔥 Dry = drought weather

[@jadereynolds1204]

Colorado has two seasons: Heatstroke and Frostbite

[@sharos2168]

Jade Reynolds Sounds like NY

[@robinchesterfield42]

Oh, you're not kidding. The weather can change INSANELY fast in Colorado. Real example: Some friends and I went to a sci-fi convention in Colorado in spring. It was warm enough that I packed mainly summerish clothes. ...on the day we left, there was a freaking BLIZZARD! Two. Days. Later. after I was wearing a comfy big t-shirt and light stretch pants. I ended up layering my summer clothes for warmth, you could barely see the road, and it seemed like we passed a TON of big-rig trucks that had jackknifed right off the highway on the way out. I'm never going to Denver again without packing clothing-types for multiple seasons, that's for sure. :P

[@OAcessoPublico]

In Brazil we have only 2 seasons: heatstroke and long sleeve season

[@noorazraq2245]

Celso Souza Same where I live.

[@amberhawksong]

Jade Reynolds lol

[@douglasphillips5870]

There are 13 seasons winter, January thaw, real fucking winter, real thaw, rain, that one nice week, hot, hotter, real fucking hot, drought, pretty leaves, bare trees, and slush.

[@mugge47]

LOL

[@dreamwolf7302]

You must live in New England lol

[@robinchesterfield42]

Yeah that sounds pretty close to what it's like where I live. :P Although the "advantage" of living in a pretty place that's both mountainy and deserty is you can get blazing hot forest-fire summers AND winters cold enough to drop into the single digits (F) and have proper snow. Yay?

[@joshuaosei5628]

I know, seasoning makes no sense, it makes a tasteless lump into a delicious dish. Just small amounts of seasonings make such a difference...

[@AntifoulAwl]

I can never work out whether it's duck season or rabbit season.

[@jim4671]

*Bugs*:Duck Season! *Daffy*:Wabbit Season! *Bugs*:Duck Season! *Daffy*:Wabbit Season! *Bugs*:Wabbit Season! *Daffy*:Duck Season! FIRE!

[@monkiram]

Kill the wabbit

[@psdaengr911]

When you need to duck to avoid being shot by hunters, it's duck season. When you want to run away or crawl into a hole in the ground to avoid hearing DTs tweeting, it's rabbit. Mostly it's rabbit.

[@picklepirate]

Why is your profile pic so terrible?

[@AntifoulAwl]

@@picklepirate i don't know, I was born this way.

[@S2Tubes]

Seasons make perfect sense. They let you know when a new crop of anime is going to air.

[@justanotherguyful]

+Blood Angel Merry Sanguinalia!

[@INDIOcomvoce1]

lol

[@JJAB91]

+Blood Angel All this anime and I just want a season 2 of KLK :c

[@animealpha4795]

Wow.

[@Lemonurelion]

I admire your optimism man and omg why do always come out at winter I hate having to wait

[@EmmanuellaUdofia]

I'm from Nigeria, and we only have two seasons. The Wet season and the Dry season. Otherwise, it's just hot all year around.

[@mosesjoe3763]

CLIMATES from POLE to EQUATOR 🌐 🌲 Frigid, Arctic, Polar: - ❄️ Winter all year round - ⚪️ Day = 6 months of sunlight - ⚫️ Night = 6 months of darkness 🌳🌲 Subarctic Seasonal: - ❄️ strong long Winters - ☀️ mild short Summers 🌳 Temperate Seasonal: - ❄️ Winter = short days, Long nights - 🌸 Spring = equal days and nights - ☀️ Summer = long days, short nights - 🍁 Autumn = equal days and nights 🌳🌴 Subtropic Seasonal: - ☀️ strong long Summers - ❄️ mild short Winters 🌴 Torrid, Tropic, Equatorial: - ☀️ Summer all year round - 💧 Wet = monsoon weather - 🔥 Dry = drought weather

[@dito7347]

In Russia, weather predicts you!

[@michalvalta5231]

In Russia, you kill the cold! With vodka! :D

[@DaniMartVTen]

Well think about it: Vodka kills Ice, Ice kills Human, Human kills Vodka!

[@KateeAngel]

That is true, actually! Weather prediction rarely work, for whatever reason

[@StarChildInABubble]

In russia, everything is f___ed.

[@weirdo6821]

dito7347 you is actually us *SOVIET RUSSIAN ANTHEM INTENSIFIES*

[@pavese1379]

I live close to the Amazon, here we only have one season: hot humid

[@ezkilmercado1025]

In the Philippines , we only have 2 seasons: Less rain and More rain

[@mosesjoe3763]

Climates from Pole to Equator 🌐 🌲 Frigid, Arctic, Polar: - ❄️ Winter all year round - ⚪️ Day = 6 months of sunlight - ⚫️ Night = 6 months of darkness 🌳🌲 Subarctic Seasonal: - ❄️ Strong long Winters - ☀️ Mild short Summers 🌳 Temperate Seasonal: - ❄️ Winter = short days, Long nights - 🌸 Spring = equal days and nights - ☀️ Summer = long days, short nights - 🍁 Autumn = equal days and nights 🌳🌴 Subtropic Seasonal: - ☀️ Strong long Summers - ❄️ Mild short Winters 🌴 Torrid, Tropic, Equatorial: - ☀️ Summer all year round - 💧 Wet = monsoon weather - 🔥 Dry = drought weather

[@veronicatoothpaste8576]

in Ohio there's no seasons the weather does what it wants

[@rydaddy2867]

Wisconsin...pretty much the same. If you've ever worn shorts and a parka on the same day, you probably live in WI.

[@jeffg3747]

RyDaddy or Minnesota, people don't understand how horrible a midcontintenal climate really is

[@BadgerCheese94]

Minnesota has a great climate. There's two kinds of people in Minnesota... hockey players and pussies.

[@robinchesterfield42]

Oh yeah. I lived in Iowa for about five years as a kid. Schools closed only when the snow was several inches thick and/or the temperature was well into the minus (F) degrees. And it's humid in the summer, too! YAY MIDWEST. :P

[@amberhawksong]

Veronica toothpaste Same in Massachusetts

[@XGames-94]

I miss winter. Last year it lasted about 5 weeks. This year it was only 2. I live in Albania which is on the right of Italy, above Greece. The worse thing is it's becoming shorter every year. Today it was almost 20 degrees celsius instead of -1 that it used to be previous years.

[@tiagocastro8434]

this year is warmer than usual because of the el niño, but yeah winter is getting smaller nonetheless, here in portugal we are at ~14°C in january, that used to be in late march / april

[@TheOldBearTime]

It rains a lot more then it use to in Sweden nowadays, last summer was almost non existent.

[@unvergebeneid]

+iamihop What a weird question. Look it up if that statement was to imprecise for your taste. sdwebx.worldbank.org/climateportal/index.cfm?page=country_historical_climate&ThisRegion=Europe&ThisCCode=SWE#

[@TheOldBearTime]

+iamihop It probably wasn't as bad as I remember but as I remember it was only sunny like 20% of the time during the summer, when it usually is like 70%. And there was only 2 hours of sunlight TOTAL last November 2014, I'm not yoking.

[@unvergebeneid]

iamihop Fair enough but your reply to my comment was a brilliant post while your initial "define 'a lot'" was pretty much the opposite.

[@1234kalmar]

Living in Europe, I can't help but wonder how insane the population boom in the stone age had t obe for people to come living here. "Well, this land becomes a desolate wasteland of death for 4 months, but hell if i will spend one more day near my neighbour. Good day sir, I said, a good day!"

[@mrnice4434]

+1234kalmar Well Inuit must have had the worst neighbours then.

[@1234kalmar]

Mr Nice I don't even dare imagine :D

[@godq3]

availability of food.

[@1234kalmar]

godq3 Yes, that much was obvious.

[@ridanann]

lol to paraphrase celtic mythology babylon took the hot places si we moved to cold places lol. few safe places atm but thing change ireland iceland Switzerland all good moving options all not so food weather lol. freedom is cold so fight naked an embrace ur fate. this has been an anarchist rant brought to u by the stoned ravings a mad man in winter lol

[@userou-ig1ze]

perfect videos sir, no babbling no self/promotion, no long logos, some short nerdhood jokes and straight, well explained, seemingly unbiased facts...amazing

[@TxJonathan]

Texas: Summer Summer Summer Less Summer Repeat.

[@willtheconqueror6030]

same in australia

[@RainbowlemurAJ]

More like Summer Summer Summer 2 days of winter Back to summer Repeat.

[@wernerhiemer406]

No blizzards? And what about Hurricanes? Actually melting under 30°C in the attic. Reason for having a meshed office chair and using sneaker socks. But I still can't wear shorts.

[@ericeaton2386]

Exactly the same in Southern California

[@AnthonyTX2024]

Basically

[@pranavathalye]

In India we have 6 seasons called Rtus. Vasanta(Sping), Grīshma(summer), Varshā(rainy), Sharad(autumn), Hemanta(pre-winter) and Shishira(winter).

[@WeirdCrazyShortGuy]

Here in Florida we have about 8 months of summer. The other four months are comprised of winter, spring, and fall lol. And even those aren't consistent.

[@wiktoria6752]

That sounds amazing, I love summer :)

[@WeirdCrazyShortGuy]

Skittle It is really nice yes, and maybe I exaggerated a bit. Maybe we have what seems to be about 6 months of pure summer or so. But believe me, the heat and humidity REALLY gets to you after a while. Still better than the bitter cold though.

[@theJellyjoker]

+Skittle Florida summers are 90/90 weather (90°/90% humidity) all day every day.

[@ragnkja]

+Mike Cassell That sounds like the inverse of a Norwegian joke: we say we have 9 months of winter and 3 months of poor ski-slopes.

[@WeirdCrazyShortGuy]

Nillie nice

[@alisonross7]

In Southern Ontario, Canada (near Toronto) December feels like fall but March is like winter all the way through.

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

Old joke, but must be regurgitated: Around here we only have 2 seasons - Winter, and Road Construction.

[@desp8161]

What does the road construction mean

[@user-dl3vn8ze9n]

@@desp8161 they construct their roads

[@HeadCannon19]

A fellow Minnesotan?

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

@@HeadCannon19 I've lived all over Canada.

[@zaboutata]

I love when he makes his bad jokes and he can't barely contain his laugh, haha 😂

[@zsfabricating]

In Northern California, the seasons are: Rainy, cloudy, chilly (nov, dec, jan, feb) warm (march) cold and windy (april- mid may) Hot (mid may- October)

[@psdaengr911]

Chicago has two seasons and a brief transitionbetween them transition where the temperatures vary to extremes. Every day in Chicago the temperature is "unseasonable", an awkward sounding word popuarized by the same guys that brought us Polar Vortex and Weather Bombs, the TV Media-Strologists.

[@unicorn_jazz]

Here in Austria we have four seasons: the only nice time in the year, also known as spring, very short (April-May) a sometimes rainy and sometimes hot summer (June-August) a depressing and windy autumn (September-October) a long, snow-less and cold winter (November-March)

[@misswhitegrape0225]

Iowa seasons are almost winter, winter, still winter, road construction.

[@princenadroj9766]

Here in Michigan, the temperature gets below freezing before the official date of winter, in the beginning of November it’s usually 23 degrees already, and it’ll still be technically autumn, and it stays cold until April, but sometimes it gets weird because it’ll warm up in January or February and reach temps of near 70 degrees but it’ll drop down to near freezing in early April and stay that way. Last year, “spring” arrived early at the end of February, it got so warm that the buds on the trees started blooming and there were bees flying around, but at around April the temperature dropped again (in mid spring) and remained that way throughout April to the end of May so the seasons are pretty unpredictable here. It’s almost spring now and it stills hasn’t warmed up yet, and we may not see spring until April or May.

[@KateeAngel]

In Russia official seasons are: summer: june-august, autumn: september- november, winter: december-february and spring: march- may. Just very easy to divide that way

[@Tomwithnonumbers]

This is the best system

[@dtrezy5223]

Yeah in Australia we do it that way except because we're in the southern hemisphere our seasons are the opposite. June-August is winter and December-February is summer.

[@MarcusCactus]

There are five seasons. Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Fall. The distinction is: mild warm, season of fruits and wine harvest - colder season of wind and leaves falling. But 5 is not easy to divide by, especially in a 12-based system (months, astrology) so they opted for 4.

[@zainabfarhan5823]

Three seasons in Toronto. Winter, Summer and construction

[@psdaengr911]

Oddly, in Chicago road construction doesn't really get going until fall. (I think their good paying building jobs take most of the year.) I've thought about moving to the friendly country to the North of here, but the climate seems harsher, darker, colder. I admire people who can live there and thtive.

[@zainabfarhan5823]

P Schmied don’t move to some Toronto hood styll man you gon regret it😂Montreal or sum like that’s a good place

[@rthmjohn]

It's an utter mystery this channel doesn't have more than 1M subscribers. It's one of the treasures of KZbin.

[@RainAngel111]

I think that basing the seasons on the solstices is the most accurate way to do it. Basing them off meteorological data may make sense locally, but it's confusing in our global culture nowadays. The sun is something that is pretty consistent over the whole earth. People in the southern hemisphere know that when the northern hemisphere gets little sun, they get a lot, and vice versa

[@RainAngel111]

mrbandishbhoir So you know when you need to start dieting to get that summer bod. also just for fun I guess?

[@Babidi111]

+RainAngel111 your fun.

[@condorboss3339]

+RainAngel111 The only real benefit of using the solstice and equinox to define the seasons is that they are objectively measureable and can be universally observed. Personally, I have always referred to the winter solstice as "midwinter day" and the summer solstice as "midsummer day."

[@spuriouseffect]

You can only define seasons locally. It depends on where you live on the globe, and at what elevation. Where I live the seasons pretty closely match the months, with a 2 week overlap depending on the year. If you count summer as time between possible frosts, then my Summer is June, July, and August. But that's not true for people living within just 50 miles of me at higher and lower elevations. My family that lives close by rarely get frost in May and September.

[@psdaengr911]

"People" don''t naturally know what the weather on another continent (or hemisphere) is like. Those in the Northern Hemisphere don't "know" that the Eartth is closest to the Sun in December, Australia's summer. To an Australian, it make sense.

[@ashleyn.9166]

In the Pacific Northwest our summer starts in Early July and lasts well into September. Our rainy season is from November to June with the coldest months falling in January and February. We are actually a little flipped from the rest of N. America. As a result we have skewed our school year to run from just after labor day to mid-June.

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Australia's official summer starts on the 1st of December (or at least that's what we're all taught and they say it on the news every year). We change every 3 months on the first day of the month. This doesn't seem too smart though as it makes summer the shortest season in a country full of people who adore the sun.

[@Devlinator61116]

That is the same as meteorological seasons in the USA.

[@zema9401]

"full of people who adore the sun" Its not like you have a choice, right?

[@alpenglw4743]

In Southern California, our seasons are a bit out of place on the calendar: spring from February to April, summer from May to September, autumn in October and November, and winter in December and January.

[@Navetsification]

In the northern parts of Australia we only have two seasons, the wet season and the dry season.

[@ShirinRose]

And in the temperate parts of Australia, the seasons follow the months, not the solstices. So summer is all of Dec, Jan, Feb; autumn is Mar, Apr, May; etc.

[@morganjonasson2947]

In sweden, I only relied on five season markers as a child and still a good indicator as I can't call anything a winter without snow: 1. when the ground is 50% covered by snow/ice, you know it is in the middle of the spring. 2. when you no longer see green leaves on the trees, you know it is in the middle of the autumn. 3. when there is absolutely NO snow on the ground - no ice on lakes, no snow, and you see leaves on the trees, you know summer has began. 4. when you see the first mosquito, you can be pretty sure that spring has began. 5. as long as the grass is green and you see no snow or ice, it's ALWAYS summer, regardless of the temperature.

[@missingfaktor]

Fun fact: In India, we have three seasons: Summer, rainy season, winter. Thanks, monsoon!

[@B3Band]

What happens after winter? Straight back to summer?

[@missingfaktor]

Well, there is spring, but it's generally lumped together with summer.

[@B3Band]

So what you're saying is that there are, in fact, four seasons, but you just don't want to talk about the fourth one!

[@missingfaktor]

That way there is also autumn. :D They are treated as, umm... things that happen. They aren't normally conferred a special season status. February to May - summer, June to September - rains, October to January - winter.

[@KateeAngel]

Winter without snow is not REAL winter! Oh, and snow that melts right after it falls is not REAL snow! ( that is how we see things in Russia)

[@felicia1646]

In Melbourne, Australia, we just have all four seasons within the one to a few days. It'd be 40 degrees in the afternoon and suddenly a storm arises during the night.

[@SzaboDTamas-ki4wu]

Flat Earth confirmed!

[@RedLeader327]

Phat*

[@improvingyeti6846]

+Szabo Tamas I hope you are joking. I can't tell anymore.

[@SzaboDTamas-ki4wu]

Improving Yeti ssssh..... don't let them know!

[@MayoMonster]

+Toughen Up, Fluffy I don't get it...

[@MayoMonster]

FECless?

[@Prospero137]

In the UK we define Summer as June, July & August; Winter is December, January & February. That quite neatly puts the middle of the season a few weeks after the solstice which fits the seasonal lag.

[@mrose8748]

winter is when it is cold spring is when there are flowers a d life summer is when it is hot and fall is when everything starts dying

[@ernodios]

everything but John Cena

[@johnathant6735]

+Yoseob Yang *Chuck Norris. If you're going to troll, do it right.

[@shnbwmn]

Not in a Mediterranean climate. Autumn is when everything starts growing lol.

[@SpriteWild]

Actually, everything starts growing in autumn here as well. Growing and sleeping, not dying. The new shoots coming out is what makes the leaves fall.

[@mbanana23456]

Where I live the seasons are: pleasant summer, horrid fog, occasional snow season but still mostly fog, and horrid fog.

[@marcoscalifornio8766]

+mbanana23456 what's that, England?

[@edlingja1]

Dude, I love fog...

[@Karlichou666]

Would it be nice if shows ended like "Stay curious... and Thanks for watching"

[@RJMx-zz8nq]

Keep you stick on the ice.

[@RJMx-zz8nq]

Keep yer (something inappropriate to say in front of children) in a vice. AVE fans know this one

[@SoapBoxMediaTV]

Bohunk! The four days traditionally marked as the beginnings of Seasons are the earth's truest and on;y inclusive four holidays. As proved within, observed by virtually all life,.literally going back to the very beginning of the planet. Having said that, thank you for the little gems you contributed to my ever-growing font of knowledge in this regard.

[@theREDdevilz22]

I know winter is here when I can see the constellation for Orion in the night sky

[@snoopy5736]

Just saw it last night

[@gamingmilk829]

+theREDdevilz22 I wish I could see stars... Stupid NY

[@waswestkan]

+Gaming Milk Just turn off the lights already or move. *:-)*

[@jm5390]

Me too! And summer when Scorpius is rising. I wish our calendar was based on stars and the sun, not weather.

[@gamingmilk829]

Cool idea. But, it's not gonna work. Since you guys like the stars, I'm assuming you know about the zodiac. And MAYBE about Ophiuchus. Just google it if you don't. So, yeah. Because of that constant shifting positions of star in the sky, this will lead to a very unreliable system that will need to reworked every 100 years or so. Plus, with the increase in cities, light pollution will render most people unable to see the stars. Cool idea, just not practical.

[@OldieBugger]

Here in Finland we have a little rhyme that goes a bit like this: "From skylark a month till summer, half a month from finch, from swift, not a day."

[@urinstein1864]

Numa! >:(

[@highspacefox]

+Urinstein lol DAMN NUMA POMPILLIUS

[@reyrey6295]

Numa Numa yeeeei! :)

[@Phazon8058MS]

I Winnipeg we have 5 seasons. Almost Winter, Winter, That One Day in March Where it's Warm and You Get Irrationally Excited, Still Winter, and Construction.

[@roccoramos1358]

That Seinfeld reference tho

[@Windkisssed]

So true!! Thank you! I always complain with the change of seasons or rather the "Proposed" change of season, how inaccurate it is!!

[@foreverplaceholder]

I thought it was title " Why seasons ( spices ) make no senses ( sweet, sour, savory, spicy, ...)?" Yeah, complex but complicated English.

[@1019wc1019]

yes english is hard. Seasonings would be the proper suffix for it. Adding "ing" "He put seasonings on his chicken"

[@DBZHGWgamer]

"seasoning" = spices. season = time of year.

[@tahdahloo4884]

Where I live there is 2 and 1/2 seasons, the first is Cold and Rainy, and the second is Hot and Dry and the 1/2 one is cold and dry, this is where normally spring goes or beginning of fall

[@ishankmahale5393]

I bet most of the youngsters didn't get the Numa-Numa meme.

[@Livingeidolon]

Pneuma, it's Latin.

[@pavelcacik1670]

I did maan, I'm 14 :D

[@carultch]

Question for you: what is the real name of the Numa-Numa song, and what does its title mean in English?

[@LocalLiife]

Here in Sweden seasons make perfect sense. June to August is the hottest months, September to November rainy, December to February the coldest and March to May the snow melts and it gets warmer again.

[@chair4joeyb826]

Here in Utah and Nevada there is also 4 seasons no water, no water, no water and drought

[@robinchesterfield42]

This. As a fellow Utahn, yep...pretty much. Well...where I live we do have sudden bouts of rain for like, three days straight or snow for three days straight. So it's like mini-monsoons. But the rest of the time it's: dry and cool, dry and FOREST FIRE, dry with pretty leaves, or dry and brown. :P

[@nathanielschwartz425]

1:20 That’s my personal favorite William Shakespeare play of all time!!!!

[@zeholandajunior]

Thanks for Portuguese subtitles, captions.

[@LeftBeef]

Here in New Hampshire we have 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction

[@martso9288]

In mid febuary, in Lithuania, and most of eastern europe, we go to the woods and look for badgers and their tracks. Doing basicly the same thing.

[@James01100011]

Wait, how did the Roman mess up? Looks like what they had was right on 2:13. And once you explained how the Romans contributed, the seasons make perfect sense.

[@michalvalta5231]

They had it right from their perspective... "They" messed up cause it doesn't work for the rest of the world. But in fact it's us who messed up, since we are trying to apply it to the whole world (or at least most of it) in the first place. :D

[@TheInfiniteSheldon]

"Wait, how did the Roman mess up?" Their calendar was pretty nonsensical until they started copying the Egyptians. They kept adding days to their year for poops and giggles. It got out of hand after a while.

[@Mira-dp6di]

But the video claims the seasons doesn't line up, but for the Romans in lines up PERFECTLY. He then proceeds to say the Romans fucked it up, because it didn't extrapolate to the northern hemisphere well. The video made 2 100% contradictory claims leaving anyone who listened confused as to what he is trying to say.

[@pablozenteno7913]

the romans fucked it uo because they imposed their calendar (wich worked only for them) on the whole known world.

[@inamib.9786]

Mathieu Levert the Europeans who had it imposed on them went on to colonize the Americas and imposed on the continent

[@timarulad]

Here in New Zealand we can get 4 seasons in one day, especially in the summer......cool start to the day, comes out very hot and then a freezing cold front comes through and drops snow on the hill tops.

[@spacecadet35]

As an actual real live physicist; what the hell are you talking about? The oceans help keep the daily extremes of flatter, but they are not primarily responsible for the thermal lag you are talking about. The reason that the months after the Summer Solstice are warmer than the Solstice itself is because for a couple of months after the Solstice there is more energy entering the hemisphere of the Earth than is leaving it. This is what primarily gives the temperature phase shift.

[@spacecadet35]

***** And this is why a formal education is a better source of information than the internet.

[@spacecadet35]

***** The Summer Solstice is the longest day of the year. But until the Equinox there is actually more hours of sunlight than nighttime. During the day the Earth absorbs heat from the Sun faster than it can radiate it into space. Some of that heat goes into the oceans, some on the land. At night Earth radiates heat out into space. As the day is longer than the night, for about about 6-8 weeks after the Solstice the Earth is still absorbing more heat than it can radiate. A similar thing happens during winter. This also occurs through a 24 hour day. It is coldest for the hour after dawn because the Earth is still radiating heat faster than a low sun can heat the surface. Oceans are important for moderating the heat and for heat transportation, but not the thermal phase shift (the lag between what the sun does and what the temperature does.)

[@spacecadet35]

***** You do realise that most Meteorlogists are physicists or matehmaticians, right? Just about all physicists have to do Thermodynamics in their degrees. This is to do with heat transfer, which is what were talking about here. Also, my Masters was specifically and explicitly on the Physics of Climate. But the great thing about science is you don't have to take my word for it. If you actually study the subject you will arrive at the same conclusion as me. The physics on this is pretty solid.

[@MatthewOstergren]

Thermal amount lag varies from region to region even in areas with similar latitudes for a complex set of reasons but proximity to large bodies of water are probably the biggest factors in that variation.

[@martind2520]

The video did not claim that bodies of water _caused_ the lag, what the video claim was that large bodies of water caused the _difference_ in lag between North America and Europe. Which is absolutely correct. Water has a high specific heat capacity and so areas with large amounts of water take longer to change temperature.

[@jillianm8958]

In Virginia, USA we have 4 seasons: cold as shit (winter), hot as shit(summer), nice and warm (spring), nice and cool (fall)

[@PinkBroBlueRope]

spring has got to be the most useless season, like what even happens in spring

[@BigGrease1]

lol what are you talking about, I mean like in spring loads of stuff happens. trees bud and bloom and begin to grow their leaves back, grass starts growing again, you see more animals, days are longer, and non-mammals come back like frogs and lizards and stuff. also, this is usually the time to plant seeds. do you not have seasons where you are?

[@emely9128]

Spring is when people know to get back in the fucking house because of the pollen

[@MadSpectro7]

+Kris Douglass Where I live spring is when the best weather happens.

[@Xenro66]

+Music Geek69 And summer, it's hot so you get back in the house, autumn it's wet and cold so you get back in the house and in winter, it's cold and windy so you get back in the house. Just don't leave your house xddd.

[@emely9128]

Jordan O'C yeah I mean who needs human communication, a job, and school. That's what the internet is for

[@foxymetroid]

In Vegas, there's a short, relatively mild winter, spring, a fairly long period of "How are we not dead?" that lasts from May to late September/sometimes early October, and fall.

[@carlosantuckwell]

Same in Sydney, only in the opposite months.

[@benkennedy4894]

the current system is close enough who cares

[@desp8161]

In Vancouver we have two seasons, rain and drought

[@grayscalemedia6869]

nobody cares what the weather is like where you live.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

In Massachusetts, we have the four seasons, plus "Indian summer", false winter, false spring, "Wait five minutes, it'll change", and April (bite me April!). In Arizona, we had nice, warm, too damn hot, and nice. And a few days a year of rain. In Georgia, over only three months I experienced OH-MY-GOD-IT'S-HOT, mosquitos and blackflies, hurricane, and mud seasons. I left before Thanksgiving, so I can't speak to other variations.

[@bubba1984]

typical bull video - produce lots of words and zero substance

[@michalvalta5231]

typical bull comment...

[@vlisto3712]

Nope, he explained everything perfectly. You're just too stupid to understand words.

[@5erazoR]

He did not prove if and why seasons make no sense. Which is the topic of this video according this title.

[@michalvalta5231]

5erazoR Except he did... You are apperently too stupid to understand the words too.

[@5erazoR]

I guess I'm more stupid than some, but it's not the point ^^. He said where it came from, why and why in some place it's not appropriate to use the season of others places, but this is different from "why seasons make no sense" which includes an absolutism note. (It's a bait, so he gets more views but also angry comments).

[@samteinert106]

Texas has 3.5 seasons: hell on earth, cool rain, humid rain, and just cold enough to where a coat but not cold enough for anything but dead grass and s bit of frost

[@lumpyfishgravy]

"Why Seasons Make No Sense" 1. They demonstrably make some sense. Otherwise you'd've had a very short video. 2. You mean "How" not "Why". A simple mistake! But easy to get right, too. 3. Perhaps it's because you're American.

[@DBZHGWgamer]

Pretty sure he's actually canadian...

[@michalvalta5231]

What he meant was "Why OUR seasons make no sense". The way WE divided them. There is no such thing as "season", that's a word we created. Earth doesn't have 4 special positions, it moves fluently. It doesn't teleport from season to season. :D But I guess that's just too hard to understand... ;-)

[@naqiyahmulachelah5668]

here in my country, a tropical country, we have that one insect that will make that sound when the rain season is about to end.

[@mrdraw2087]

The seasonal lag is about one month almost everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, so the warmest days are around July 21st and the coldest days are around January 21st. Therefore, December to February are usually regarded as the winter period, while the summer last from June to August. I don't know if the astronomical seasons fit the temperatures better in southern Europe. While August is usually the hottest month around the Mediterranean, temperatures already start to rise again by mid-January, so the start of the winter (December 22th or so) is considerably cooler than the end (somewhere around March 20).

[@ericlanglois9194]

In Central Canada you have 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter and Construction.

[@robertmifkovic6325]

I live in a temperate climate in Europe and summer was always June, July, August; autumn - September, October, November; winter - December, January, February and spring - March, April, May. I think it does make a lot of sense.

[@aino2927]

This is the case in Finland

[@LemonadeMouthSomebod]

I heard in Alaska there are two seasons: cold season and construction season (or something like that).

[@alikaandrade3435]

The Numa joke is still my favorite one on this channel. Never gets old.

[@DaveTexas]

Since you live in Austin, you know that we only have two seasons here: summer and not summer. There are two weeks in between each season that are comfortable, otherwise it’s either unpleasantly hot or unpleasantly cold. (Austinites consider temperature below 70° to be unpleasantly cold.). However, we do have four actual seasons if you’re talking about allergy seasons - oak, mold, ragweed, and cedar.

[@SteinGauslaaStrindhaug]

Where I grew up, if measured by the weather, we had 3 seasons: summer, winter and snowmelt. To me the fall cliche with rain and wind blowing leaves around, were just something we saw on tv, instead the summer just lasted until about october when it seemingly within a week or to went from warm to cool to frost. Usually the leaves didn't blow off the trees because its too little wind and foze in place and fell off during winter or during snowmelt.

[@stanrogo]

It was only relatively late that I learned about the "official seasons". At school we were always told that seasons last 3 months and that e.g. summer would be June, July and August.

[@BradCoopTof]

Thank you!!!! People rarely consider global climate patterns when talking about seasons! Temperature extremes hit the poles because of their location/time of year. Temperature extremes also hit the middle of large continents because of their absence of a body of water to help absorb heat in the day and radiate the heat out at night. Gyres in the oceans control not only wind patterns, but also hurricanes and monsoons. It’s not just “we’re in North America, winter is snowy, summer is hot and humid” such a stupid way to spread misinformation among kids and creating misinformed adults.

[@cityraildude]

in Australia summer starts 1 December, autumn 1 March, etc.

[@lindatisue733]

The seasons line up pretty well in Stockholm Sweden. Summer, our hottest days are between June 20 and Aug 15, winter coldest days between December 25 and March 1.

[@blkgardner]

The timing of the seasons vary by location. For example. the hottest day of the year on the Pacific coast is in late August to September, while in the desert southwest, it is in June. To use another example, the hottest day of the year in Little Rock, Arkansas lags about a month beyond Indianapolis.

[@KarstenJohansson]

So I guess seasons are like time zones and daylight saving time. We live in a world of clocks that do not agree with each other.

[@daronolenus3911]

Chicago on October 1st. 2021 still have to use the AC!!!

[@wiktoria6752]

The fact that winter may be ending this month is a very comforting thought. I don't know how people survive through the cold, it's the worst.

[@FantasmaOlvidado1]

In my country (Costa Rica) we have two seasons, Rainy and Summer. Rain for 6 months and sun for 6 months.

[@CreamIceMs]

Here in tropical Panama its just... Summer which is sunny, hot and humid, from December to April, and "Winter" which means it's rainy, hot and humid. Crazy seasons.

[@ebonyware1815]

My friends always complain about the weather still being insanely hot despite it being well into March and I just laugh because of course its still hot because we're still in Bunuru, the Noongar season, which is called the second summer and is the hottest time of year. European seasons honestly make absolutely no sense here in Australia.

[@skuttle7107]

In AZ, we get winter (about 50'f) in November-Mid Febuary And summer pretty much the rest of the year (115' or higher)

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

2 days ago in oklahoma it was 73f... Usually february 1st we have snow on the ground. This year has been weird. Damn el nino

[@OokamiKageGinGetsu]

It's Okay To Be Smart Man, I live in the Texas Panhandle. we could get 2 feet of snow in one day, and be 80 degrees the next week, and 10 degrees a week after that. A month ago we were running the heater from about 9 or 10 pm until about 9 or 10 am, and the AC from about noon to 4 pm.

[@colinmaclaughlanweir9670]

Here in Brisbane we have 6months of Summer, 2 months of Summer is going, 2 months of Summer is gone and 2 months of Summer is comming.! It is always hot and it is just getting hotter.

[@littledarkstranger8111]

In Ireland the seasons happen with the months. Winter is November December January, and Summer is May June July. Spring and Autumn fit in between.