While some people look forward to the fall season for a relief from summer's oppressive heat, the four seasons are determined by changing sunlight, not heat.
To celebrate the autumnal equinox, which falls, today, Sept. 23, Loganville-Grayson Patch looked to the The Old Farmer's Almanac for more information on the fall season.
On the first day of fall, day and night are each about 12 hours long. The word equinox comes from the Latin words for "equal night."
After today, temperatures will begin to drop and the days will start to get shorter.
Old Farmer's Almanac's autumn folklore and verse
"It is the summer's great last heat, It is the fall's first chill: They meet." — Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
"Autumn days come quickly, like the running of a hound on the moor." — Irish proverb
Trees snapping and cracking in the autumn indicate dry weather.
If, in the fall of the leaves in October, many of them wither on the boughs and hang there, it betokens a frosty winter and much snow.
Spring rain damps;
Autumn rain soaks.
"Of autumn's wine, now drink your fill; the frost's on the pumpkin, and snow's on the hill." — The Old Farmer's Almanac, 1993
"Autumn has caught us in our summer wear." — Philip Larkin, British poet (1922-1986)
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