I don't care what the sun thinks. It's spring (about our seasons)

[ritaxis]

I've been thinking about Coastal seasons again. A couple-few years back I proposed eight or so seasons, and someone with great google mojo could find that somewhere in recarts.sf.written or fandom. But I've been thinking about -- well, what if we insist on four? What defines a season? Surely not day length.

Do these definitions work? They're not definitions, though, they're salient features.

Winter -- characterized by -- cooler temperatures? How about characterized by vegetative dormancy? Does that work?
Spring -- characterized by new plant growth and early blossoming. Okay?
Summer -- characterized by warmer temperatures? How about characterized by ripening?
Autumn -- characterized by the culmination of ripening, and the beginning of dormancy?

Are those okay? I can't work well with the temperature ones, because they're too squishy here. I mean, we get our warmest temperatures in three or so heat spells, the first in May and the last in October, and what are you going to do with that? But Let's look at the plant life cycle ones and how they apply to the Coast.

Dormancy -- begins in August, lasts till December.
New growth -- begins in December (but let's say January), lasts till May.
Ripening -- begins in April (but let's say May), lasts till November.
Onset of dormancy -- see above.

I can't quite make it four seasons if I do it this way, though I could carve out August till October for autumn by defining it as "from the beginning of dormancy to the beginning of the rainy season."

Or I could give up and have two: October-April for the rainy season, May-September for the dry season (it doesn't really begin raining till the last week in October).

Anyways, it's definitely spring now. I will have new pictures soon.