Season Similarities: Winter & Summer, Spring & Fall

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This is the last blog entry about the similarities of each season. This time, we are going to explore through opposite seasons. In previous times, we compared how winter is similar to both fall and spring. Same with summer. Today, we will talk about the other seasons. They may be the opposites this time, but it doesn't mean they aren't similar. In fact, they are even similar to where they are opposites to.

Winter and Summer:​

Winter and summer are the opposite of each other. One season is cold, snowy, low air pressure, and longer nights, while the other season is hot, sunny, high air pressure, and longer days. But they are still similar.

• Both have holidays and events related to the American Revolution - we did say the same thing about spring and summer about this. Well, George Washington was a general during the American Revolution. He was the first president, and one of the two presidents we celebrate his birthday for. His birthday is in February, a winter month. On a related note, February is also the month of President's Day, when we show spirit to America. What else is related to the American Revolution? Independence Day. That's right. Independence Day is a summer holiday, and it dates to the American Revolution. The Spirit of America holidays appear to be in both winter and summer.
• Both have holidays where all schools close - so here's what we know. Five holidays that always land on Monday (MLK Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day), a lot of schools close due to holiday. But there are some schools and colleges open on one of these days (or perhaps three of them). The only two holidays they don't open are Martin Luther King Day and Labor Day, both of them being in the winter and summer (respectively).
• Both are present at the same time worldwide - as we are all aware that it's not the same season worldwide at once, the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere will always have the opposite seasons. It's winter in one hemisphere while it's summer in the other. But the events aren't in different times of the year. Holidays like Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine's are obviously winter holidays, but in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries in the southern hemisphere, it is summer, and they celebrate those holidays too. So Christmas is both a winter and summer holiday, it's just only a winter holiday in the northern hemisphere (except for Florida, which is summer all year long). And another thing, in the tropics, winter is hot as summer while summer is as cold as winter at the poles. So even if we get spring and fall in the temperate zones, we still have winter and summer around the world all year long.
• Both seasons have extreme temperatures - more likely the extrema of the year. Summer is the hottest season as winter is the coldest season. Even if they are opposites, they are still at the extremes.
• Both shorten what's longer - here we go again, the length of day and night in both seasons. As the earth tilts, it tilts to the point when one side is the closest to the sun while the other is the furthest. Then it tilts back. In the winter, nights are longer than days, as it starts out with that. It's no longer winter when days and nights are equal. But while days are shorter than nights, days get longer while nights get shorter. In the summer, it is the opposite. Days are already longer than nights. Meanwhile, days get shorter while nights get longer. How are both seasons similar then? They lengthen what is shorter between day and night and shorten what's longer.
• Aphelion and Perihelion - another similarity between winter and summer is that the earth is at the extreme points based on how close or far they are from the sun. Even if it's relatively close all year long, it's further from the sun on one day while it's at the closest on another day. The time the earth is at the closest is in January. The time of the furthest - July. Both are in the winter and summer.

Spring and Fall​

While winter and summer are the extreme points, spring and fall are the average points. Like winter and summer, spring and fall are opposites. But are they opposites in every way? Let's see what they are similar to.

• Both have festive holidays about collecting candy - Easter is a candy collecting holiday. We hunt for eggs, open them up, and find a piece of candy. Halloween is an even bigger one. You can collect candy from your neighbors or at parties. And don't forget the feasts. Easter has a special dinner, and so does Thanksgivings.
• Both have snow early or late in the season - it should start snowing in November or early December, which is still in the fall. And sometimes, the snow wants to follow us in the spring. Since summer is the only months without snow and since spring and fall have long periods of time with no snow, they are similar to the snow pattern.
• Both are present at the same time worldwide - just like winter and summer, it is spring on one side of the earth while it's fall on the other side. And some holidays that are in one month are celebrated anywhere, not just America. Easter is a spring holiday. In the southern hemisphere, it is always celebrated in fall. A spring holiday in the southern hemisphere is Halloween, which is more of a fall holiday. So they celebrate the same holidays at the same time, but not in the same seasons. But Halloween would be rather a fall exclusive holiday since it's more popular in the northern hemisphere.
• Both seasons recover from the others - what this means is that spring warms us up after a cold winter while fall cools us down after a hot summer.
• Both lengthen what's longer - if you saw what I meant about the day and night patterns, spring and fall are different to winter and summer. In spring, days are longer than nights, and days continue to get longer. In fall, days are shorter than nights, and nights continue to get longer. The similarity? They lengthen what's longer between day and night.
• Both are the busiest seasons - let's see. Spring and fall are the busiest seasons when it comes to school, work etc. Fall is all occupied within the fall semester. And if we include March, but exclude June, a lot of the spring is occupied by the school year.

That's it for Season Similarities. I should be talking about other things later in my blog.