Pants Vs. Shorts

Warning: faux SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE

Spoiler

The earth has a very large thermal mass, which means that during the summer, it 'collects' warmth. During the fall, the air is kept warmer as this heat is released from the earth. However, during the winter, negligible warmth is acquired, so in spring, the earth is going to be colder, especially near the start.

Spring often feels warmer than fall because our bodies have become acclimated to different temperatures. The summer gets us used to like 80s/90s, so when it drops down to 60, hey dat be cold. The winter gets us used to 10s/20s, so when it gets up to be 60, it feels extraordinarily warm.

But yeah. cosh.

So....
maybe?

 

Oh yeah... Well in that case, someone's crazy. Or maybe Fall is like Spring in reverse. Or maybe Spring is Fall in reverse.

@LA: After our bodies get used to the colder weather, wouldn't they be more sensitive to warmer weather? (vice versa with Winter)
That seems to make just as much sense as your faux science statement.

 

I am sure there are a lot of crazy people.

 

SCIENCE

Hmm, yes, that does make sense.

 

So I just looked at some actual data, and I am indeed mistaken.
Autumn and Spring are each 91 days long, so the weighted average temperature can be taken by
(10*a+31*b+30*c+20*d)/91

So autumn's average temperature is 39.9 degrees, and spring's is 53.2.
Note that this is the traditional equinox-first definition of a season. If you define them as equinox-central, then autumn's average is 44.9 degrees and spring's is 48.8.



Data for each month taken from average temperature dot com. All temperatures are in fahrenheit.

 

I feel too exposed wearing shorts.

 

Wait what? I thought the standard definition was equinox-central?

 

Really?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer#Timing

Turns out it's neither...

 

How odd!
Under the given meteorological definitions then:

Spring: 47.0
Autumn: 47.0

Uh.
Neat.

 

How does that work out? That number's lower than all the numbers in your earlier post.

 

See the edit in the previous post.
I accidentally used the average maximum in some of the previous numbers, yielding inconsistencies both internally and externally.


ALSO it turns out the website randomly selects a new poll area every time I refresh, which would explain differences.
All the data is now updated to be for Fort Benton, MT.

 

How odd!
Spring: 47.0
Autumn: 47.0

Hate to say I told you so.
:3

 

I think spring would feel warmer, then, since it is any amount warmer than winter (which had just been completed), so it would logically seem warmer to a human body adapted to the cold.
But when I think of fall, I generally think of the beginning of fall (when all the leaves start turning red) when summer is just ending.
For example, it feels like winter right now to me, even though winter hasn't actually begun yet.
So I'd believe that they'd be roughly equivalent, upon second thought.

 

Why not a skirt during fall?
Fall is warmer than spring, at least as far as I know.

Skirts, all season every season.

 

I love wearing hippie skirts during the spring/summer. Makes frolicking 10x better

 

i read that as "frog licking"

 

How could frog licking get any better? It's already the best!

 

If it's warm enough, I'll wear shorts.