We’ve always wondered if meteorologists — the prognosticators of weather so frequently jeered and abused for inaccurate predictions — lived in some kind of alternate universe. It turns out, they aren’t even operating on the same seasonal calendar as the rest of us.
On the Gregorian calendar, the change of seasons falls on the 21st or 22nd of March, June, September and December, correlating with astronomical solstices and equinoxes. Meteorologists (and the continent of Australia,…