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Moving from the US to the UK, one of the first things I noticed was that the colloquial understanding of the seasons mapped much more cleanly onto what actually happens with the weather here. Growing up in the midwest of the US the seasons all felt off in the same way the author describes.

The parent comment about Great Britain sounds exactly the same as the Atlantic / Midwest US to me. Where did you have it differently?

In my mind this is it, the colloquial seasons, and with vague boundaries depending on feeling, whereas the calendar "seasons" are there just to quarter the year artificially.

Autumn this season in the UK was (is) September to April. It's still cloudy, windy and chilly (2.5c below the average today).

It feels like it's never going to end!

yup those are simplified meteorological seasons from lazy meteorologists small kids also learn in school

I always tell my kids if they wanna accurately measure the seasons they must use astronomical seasons, which are more accurate