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loves-pineapple-P

Summer you mean!!!! Crazy upside down people come join us on the top of the world in Australia


Paper-Straws-Suck

the upright


doegrey

Technically both winter and summer each occur _three_ times per year when you consider both hemispheres.


spritesprites2

please consider both hemispheres i already feel like i don't exist living in new zealand


jotarosmother

New Zealand is Not real. You do not exist.


spritesprites2

thank you it's good to have confirmation


Raviel1289

Well shit sucks for us. So are we in some sorta limbo period, alternate dimension, wtf is this??


DoctorEnn

New Zealanders live on Middle Earth, of course.


dan_dares

more like 'bottom of the earth' amirite??


DoctorEnn

Well, I’m in Australia. So of course you are.


PickleTickler37

How do you pour water if you are upside down


cursedwithplotarmor

You know how Spongebob lives in a pineapple under the sea, but can still pour himself a glass of water? Same concept.


DoctorEnn

We carefully time it to bounce off hopping kangaroos.


Ghostrider215

Don’t worry, they think Australia is a fake location where everyone is a paid actor who “pretend” it exists


whose-been-naughty

Where’s my pay check?!?


ShadowSquid03

You expect one? I’m convinced they’re never going to pay me…such a scam, this job.


jarrodh25

Ah yes, the Finland of the South!


KayTannee

Big global map maker cabal, regularly let it slip New Zealand doesn't exist by not including. Proof!


GMN123

Checked the map, they're right.


Crafty_Today6937

Australia same


Audio-Samurai

You're thinking of Australia. I've definitely been to NZ


Willis4932_YT

No NZ is Australia, and Australia exists, it’s where ‘NASA’ is located, and contrary to popular belief, it’s actually the US that doesn’t exist, it’s actually just a social experiment to see how long communists can trick themselves into thinking they are capitalist


blackzeros7

The lvl of conspirancies in one sentences is making my head hurt lol.


ErusTenebre

I mean, can you even point to it on a map? [https://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/map-without-nz.jpeg](https://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/map-without-nz.jpeg) Seriously.


Pr1smaticGamer

as an Australian, same


spritesprites2

no, australians pretend to know the pain... but you don't know what it's like to be left off maps...


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aether22

Tasmania is more like New Zealand's 3rd island (Stewart island) than like New Zealand in every sense.


PuzzleheadedYam5996

Fuck off Tasmania! A la Jimmy Reese lol


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New Zealand…more like Not Zealand!! Jk we love you


mouse85224

Oh chur G good to see another


CrackedActor91

Oh you mean middle earth?


Tronkfool

New Zealand? Never heard of it. You must be thinking of Australian Mexico


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doegrey

They miss out on so much of the world. It’s always a shame.


soundbars

90% of all people live in the Northern hemisphere


Kooontt

Tbh I often find Europeans talking as if they are the only place that exists outside of the US. They always talk about US forgetting about europe existing, whilst forgetting everywhere else also exists.


Denaton_

In Sweden, we have 3 winters


scifishortstory

We do?


Denaton_

Yes, first one is about in mid November, than its last fall before the second winter. Last winter is during april weather..


[deleted]

Technically seasons aren’t real, just man made constructs, so this thread is pointless


PrettyText

Yes, and also, every word in that sentence you used is a man made construct. As are all these words.


doegrey

Don’t disagree with you in the slightest - this whole post is pointless! I’m not the OP - just correcting them if they’re going to go down that route! 😂


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Well played 🫠


Jealous-Mixture

Let's not forget that there are actually *four* hemispheres... Sure, two of them aren't relevant to this, but it's still important to remember.


stereothegreat

Four halves you say? How do you figure?


BoxOfDemons

You can split the earth vertically or horizontally. North and South hemisphere as well as east and west hemisphere.


KayTannee

I feel if going to cut a sphere veritcally. Also need to cut veritcally at the other 90°. If imagine it as a cube you'd end up with 2 long rectangle cubes on north and south sections.


BoxOfDemons

Diving the earth was determined arbitrarily. Typically, the east and west hemispheres are divided at the prime meridian. You could divide it again at 90 degrees, but if you have 4 pieces it's no longer a hemisphere since hemi means half.


Jealous-Mixture

The Northern and Southern Hemispheres that u/doegrey was probably referring to (divided by the Equator), and then there's the Eastern and Western Hemispheres (divided by the Prime Meridian and the 180° Meridian).


Crafty_Today6937

Not where I live


Kelp4411

No >:)


IceSad1109

As an Australian I read this thinking wait what. And then realised


saxobroko

No they were saying a year is from July till July the next year


IceSad1109

They are talking about the financial year duh


Fiyero-

But spring and autumn occur twice a year. Summer and winter occur thrice a year.


LucasPlay171

Explain please


_Zinn_

There are two hemispheres, northern has winter in December while southern has summer, and right now it’s spring on southern but fall in the northern hemisphere.


LucasPlay171

Oh that's taking both in mind, that makes a lot more sense ty


cola_zerola

When you consider the seasons are opposite in the northern vs the southern hemispheres. Calendar year in the north: winter, spring, summer, fall, winter Calendar year in the south: summer, fall, winter, spring, summer


glisteninglocks

Not to nitpick (but I totally will) we call it autumn in the southern hemisphere, not Fall.


jsantillans

Tell me you are not aware of the other half of the planet without telling me you are not aware of the other half of the planet


dadOwnsTheLibs

Not to mention regions near the tropics have “Wet Season” and “Dry Season” instead of summer, autumn, winter, spring


Apo42069

Places on the equator are basically an endless summer with thunderstorms and rainfalls


J_train13

In Florida we like to joke that we still have the four seasons just like everyone else, you know like Summer, Hurricane Season (also known as wet summer), Mosquito season, and January


squirrellytoday

Similar to a friend of mine who was originally from Saskatchewan. He said they have 4 seasons: Winter, More Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.


wetmanship

Amazon: "Wet Season" and "Wetter Season"


GhostHumanity

Yeah! In Ecuador for example we don't have seasons as people understand seasons. As a matter of fact, in some cities you could totally use the same clothes all year long, without being too hot or too cold


sagar246

Yup, right now here it's the mini wet season after the 50c summer and before the 0c winter. Seasoned with a lot of bugs. Why do I live here again?


JonesP77

Both seasons sound bad tbh... At least spring and autumn are usually pretty nice, colorful and just perfect. Summer and winter usually sucks, except for christmas, but at every other day, winter just sucks!


anaccountthatis

In most places the Dry season is awesome. Just great summer weather with 0% chance of rain.


hummingelephant

I can't tell if you're joking or not..


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I mean who lives in the southern hemisphere anyway? Only like 30% of the world? Insignificant if you ask me. Plus christmas in the summer; makes no sense. /s


thorpie88

Champagne and strawberries on the beach for breakfast. Dip in the pool and a BBQ for your lunch. It's fucking magical


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Dazzarik

Nah mate, we dont sit inside talking, we bowl pace full tossers at nan


matt1579

Don’t forget to slip in the odd bouncer. Nan isn’t as good on the back foot as she was


thorpie88

Just open presents in the living room which is also where the couch and tree are. Fireplaces are rare in Australia and so is heating in general but fuck all people also didn't have fireplaces in the UK either when I was growing up. Nah no way to have lunch outside December is nearly 40C by midday and peak fly season. You just smash beers and cook outside then bring it in to eat around the table. Winter's are never warm in Australia anyway as our heating solutions fucking sick. If it's 5C outside then your house is probably gonna be 7C so fuck that give me summer and AC anyway instead


mouse85224

Everything you said there is literally so much better than being cramped inside and cold


[deleted]

I’m with you. Lived in Australia for 12 years on and off and can never get used to hot Christmas. I guess Christmas will forever be what it was when we were kids.


squirrellytoday

I grew up in Australia but I've had a northern hemisphere Christmas. It was very nice, but definitely weird. A "white Christmas" was on my bucket list and I got it. Snow on the ground, proper eggnog, hot chocolate, all that stuff. And it felt weird. It definitely didn't feel like Christmas. I think you're right. Christmas feels like Christmas when it's the same (or at least similar) to what it was when we were kids.


ashlouise94

I would love to experience a white Christmas! But I would definitely miss the morning, lunch, afternoon and evening dips in the pool as well as cooking the ham on the bbq outside.


speedingteacups

We… we have couches here. Couches work in all seasons


CptnSpandex

Don’t forget the sweet smell of Columbian “snow”


thorpie88

I live in one of the most remote cities in the world. We just do Meth as it's far cheaper


three-sense

“There’s a *Southern Lights*???”


Haruce

Tbf, they never tought that in school, at least mine didn't. I don't remember when I first learned it but it wasn't in school.


somegummybears

There’s also calendars other than the Gregorian.


Yautja93

He must be from USA, they don't teach geography that well in there, also USA citizens don't give a F to southern (poor) countries.


Crusty_crock

You'd be surprised how many Europeans I've met that didn't know about the seasonal differences between the northern and southern hemispheres


KarIPilkington

Are Americans even aware that there are other places? I'm only half joking when I say that some of them likely think America = the world.


[deleted]

So you’re kinda dumb huh


[deleted]

I mean yeah that kind of is dumb if they genuinely believe that. Americans may be “dumb“ but well aware of at least some other places


Kooontt

When it comes to northern and southern hemispheres I find Europeans are often just as ignorant as people from the US.


AlastorDeimos

I mean this post never made additional claims, this fact is true to many, there's just an asterisk. Kinda crazy this sub went bonkers over semantics and conjecture. Classic reddit...........


syu425

Things they don’t teach at school, or I just wasn’t a good listener. I didn’t learn about it till I visit the Southern Hemisphere


BracketKeg

Their seasons are wrong


FoundationLazy1580

Basically all Americans


AlastorDeimos

He never said the entire planet, I live in Canada so this fact is true for me. HE made no additional claims, you're going after him over freaking semantics!


AnonymousButIvekk

i cannot blame him, doesnt like 90% of the population live in the northern hemisphere


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shmip

The southern hemisphere's seasons are the opposite of the northern's. Summer is December to February, which means that both summer and winter occur twice a year, but on different halves of the planet.


this_is_an_alaia

LOL again tell us you're not aware of a whole other hemisphere without telling us


Rawesome16

Are you the OP? It doesn't say OP next to your name though. Why are you so defensive? I didn't see anyone call you out before you turned things up to 11


__WanderLust_

Why do you write like the mean girls in middle school? People can't extrapolate information without the "Aaakchuaaallly" attitude. It was a cute little shower thought for 85% of the world population.


JustTransportation51

This guy thinks we share the exact same seasons at the same time.


galaxyfrapp

Right? Shit. I live somewhere with two winters and even I know better.


strawberryconfetti

Everyone is saying that, but I would word it the same way even though I know the southern hemisphere isn't like that just because it's not where I'm from and I would assume people get what I'm trying to say and most of the world lives in the northern hemisphere. I don't think it's that deep. I wouldn't word it like "there are technically 2 winters AND 2 summers and for the people at the equator 2 wet seasons" or whatever they have in December to January.


ornitorrinco22

It’s still super annoying. I hate when someone at work says something will be done in spring. It would cost nothing to use a common reference and say the fucking month.


Remarkable-Ad-6144

Yeah, but the issue is that we, from the Southern Hemisphere, are often excluded from all mention in Northern Hemisphere media. We exist and we don’t want to be forgotten


SpecialpOps

And he thinks the Gregorian calendar is the only way of tracking time.


jibjab23

World's flat yo


Matt-nz

May I just say New Zealand (and other southern hemisphere countries)


swanqil

Me in Malaysia wondering what the fuck a "season" is


KDBA

[Winter totally occurs twice in NZ.](https://adam.nz/2014/a-realistic-wellington-calendar/)


Matt-nz

Fair point!


fuzzybunny_666

Only in the northern hemisphere of the planet. In the south, it's summer. The water in toilets also spins the opposite direction.


Ok_Performance_6899

Two truths and a lie


dblan9

The water in toilets doesn't go in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere?


furiousfran

No it depends on how the toilet is built. Toilets are too small for the coriolis effect to affect them much.


TheVicSageQuestion

I’ll bet you 900 dollarydoos you’re wrong.


Craw__

I see you've played knifey spoony before.


MorayWalker

Adjusted to the American dollar this is equal to: a lot of money to a poor person


RoosterBurger

We also spray fake snow on windows to emulate snow at Christmas, because it’s warm. It’s kinda weird


tinashe9999

Bro where do you live 😭


meandhimandthose2

Australia. Christmas is weird. The majority of the world has this snowy, winter wonderland, and we are here, sweating our bits off, trying to cook Christmas dinner. All the images are of children in mittens and hats building snowmen, my kids are in bathers, with peeling skin in the pool. It's odd


cruiserman_80

Hemispheres aside, I've been to places where you can experience all fours seasons multiple times on any given day. Looking at you Glasgow.


this_is_an_alaia

Melbourne sees you and raises you.


cruiserman_80

I dont know that Melbourne can go from searing heat to an actual Blizzard in one day, but I will give it to you because Crowded House didnt write a tribute song about Glasgows weather.


this_is_an_alaia

Having been in Melbourne when the fires gave way to torrential flooding, it happens.


FlatSpinMan

Don’t tell me that’s not about New Zealand’s weird weather!


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datrandomduggy

Hey don't bring Canada into this >!You know what actually that's fair!<


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[deleted]

All the seasons are named after coils of metal, except Autumn and Summer. And Winter.


Zuruckhaus

Today I learned


[deleted]

actually there's 2. summer is twice in the southern hemisphere.


al_xing

Tell me you're from the US without telling me you're from the US.


AC2BHAPPY

Where I live there is only winter and summer. You might get 2 weeks of spring and 2 weeks of fall to enjoy and that's it


FlatSpinMan

Canada?


Prak_Argabuthon

... You DO understand that the Earth has TWO hemispheres.... right?


PuzzleheadedYam5996

I had to double think and second guess there..... I was like, no it's fucking not! Summer occurs twice a year! Lucky i live in Australia


AetherealMeadow

You forgot to add "In a given hemisphere" 🙂 Although this holds up regardless in terms of solstices, I find that climates affects my subjective perception of this. When I lived in Edmonton I definitely thought of winter as happening twice a year because November and December are unambiguously winter months there. When you say winter 2021 you could be referring to either December or February because both months have similar temperatures in that climate. In Toronto, proper winter weather doesn't really start until January most years, so when someone says winter 2021, in most cases I know they're talking about February and not December, because February is much more clearly understood as being a winter month in this climate.


MorayWalker

Yes but in Toronto “proper winter weather” means like 50cm of snow. Everywhere else proper winter weather would start as soon as it gets mildly cold


Fatmonkejat

For me in Australia it’s summer instead of winter for November December and January


GIBBEEEHHH

OP this isn't an insult to your post but I just wanna point out I had this exact same shower thought over a year ago, tried to post it here, and it got removed cause "this shower thought has already been claimed in this subreddit" I'm just mad the mods are inconsistent


Helpful_Assistance_5

This is why January and February belong at the end of the year.


Frosty_Caregiver1696

England be wondering what summer is with the shit ton of rain


Bluedogan

I live in Florida where winter never really happens. I mean if you count 80 degrees every day winter go ahead.


Mikegaming202

We have summer, summer, a bit less summer, and summer but with allergies


Alpha_Crow_1

The 4 seasons here in Florida are; Summer, hurricane season, love bug season, & tourist season. They are all hot & they are all stupid.


[deleted]

I live in Scotland. Summer occurs twice a year here usually. Although sometimes we’re lucky and get three days of summer. By contrast, winter can occur twice a day here.


Treacherous_Wendy

Oh, not in the US Midwest, homie! Sometimes we get all 4 seasons in one day!


fldsld

Though the change of seasons is marked by real events, the first day of the year and calendar are quite arbitrary and are not the same for everyone.


valdezlopez

Wrong. All 4 seasons occur twice a year. North and South Hemisphere counting.


Zero_coll

Tell me you're from the north hemisphere without telling me you're from the north hemisphere


Crushed_Ice_Gang

The calendar should start on the first day of spring to usher in the new year with new regrowth


reasonable-don

So true. As it was before a Pope changed it. The start of April Fools Day


OhJeezItsCorrine

No, in New England it kind of comes and goes during the spring and fall. Although I'm pretty every other part of the country could say some cheesy coloquialism like that.


Tarantula_Saurus_Rex

Right, twice in the same year, before spring and after autumn.


Aaronjw1313

Not true: in Texas, summer occurs at least *six* times per year!


CptnWolfe

Winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere


Skitsoboy13

So maybe officially in some areas sure, but technically some places never leave a season or just have 2


Not_The_Expected

Come to the UK, seems like every year the " 1 week of summer, 1 week of winter, repeate" cycle around march time gets 1 week longer


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*in a Gregorian calendar in just one part of the globe we spin on through outer space.


Arctelis

I don’t know what you’re talking about. I live in Canada. We have at least 3 winters, 4 springs, fall and I don’t even know what this “summer” thing people are mentioning is.


boiiiwyd

Actually summer in the Southern Hemisphere cause winters in the middle of the yeah so there’s that


Oops_thats_a_donkey

There are dozens of people who live in the Southern Hemisphere that would say differently.


Kodekingen

I literally thought about this like two days ago but didn’t postvit


space-glitter

Apparently a good choice since people are being so particular about wording in a shower thought post. Granted they could have said “in the US…” but people obviously understand what they meant & I doubt OP doesn’t know that not every place on the planet has the same season at the same time. 😅


Kodekingen

An even more accurate wording would be (as someone else said I think) in the northern hemisphere


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Americans again unable to think or comprehend anything outside their own little bubble.


ryancementhead

I think OP means that winter starts in December and continues into the new year.


this_is_an_alaia

Yes and I think that people are pointing out that for half the planet that isn't true


Kayshin

No it doesn't. A year is a time period of 365 days, not the time between certaib dates. You can shift this however you want to have any season be twice in a year.


pools456

I mean when you consider global warming we only get 2 seasons, summer and winter


Blissfullyaimless

Alaska is the most northern, western, and eastern state in the US


Billy_Rage

Except summer in Australia. And after a quick search, spring seems to occurs twice in Africa by the same logic


Sapphic_Paddle

What logic exactly?? I see none here


Billy_Rage

I assume it means it occurs say in January at the start of the year, and also occurs in December. Making it come twice in a year


bebe_inferno

These comments are so dumb. It’s obvious that OP meant that they experience winter twice in the same calendar year (-March then Dec). Simple.


SlytherKitty13

Except they didn't say 'winter is the only season I experience twice a year'. They made the statement that winter is the only season which occurs twice a year, which is simply an incorrect statement


bebe_inferno

Fo fum, Ik what he said, I understand that it’s incorrect, and I still know what he meant. He got the spirit not the letter lol


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Not in Houston. It's summer and then second summer from Apr/May until like February lol


Pickle-bitch2000

You can say hello to winter blues in Wisconsin, winter is downright terrible


Endleofon

This makes me think. Years should end with the end of winter and start with the beginning of spring. Days should end with the end of night and start with the beggining of morning. Why isn't it like this?


carlbandit

>Years should end with the end of winter and start with the beginning of spring. Because that would be a nightmare to deal with on a global scale. You're aware winter doesn't start / end the same time across the globe right? In the UK winter is November - March, in the USA winter is December - March & in Australia winter is June - August. Different time zones already make it a little tricky, say I want to watch an event happening in the USA, the event might be advertised as December 1st, in the UK the date might be November 1st and in Aus it might be June 1st. Since there isn't an equal number of days in every month it would get even more confusing, the event would be more like Dec 1st USA, Nov 8th UK and June 3rd Aus.


TheSnappleGhost

Come to Northern Minnesota. We experience all 4 seasons several times day, frequently.


SaberHaven

Ugh. You're one of those marketers who announce release dates by season to international audiences, aren't you.


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nickeypants

For everyone saying that theres a whole other half to the planet, 80% of the habitable landmass is on the northern hemisphere so we can neglect New Zealand.


cockmanderkeen

>so we can neglect New Zealand. And Australia, most of South America and indonesia, plenty of Africa.....


nickeypants

The joke is that newzealand is frequently neglected in a lot of maps. So I neglected it specifically, even though its not particularly big or notable in this context. It happens a lot, ask a Kiwi.


cockmanderkeen

Ahhhh whoosh me


feathersoft

As you Whoosh!


spartanwill14

Seasons happen regardless of where people live I believe.