Fall equinox for 2022 is here -- that day when you get equal amounts of daylight and darkness -- except it's not as equal as you think. Find out whether you get bonus sunlight.
Twice a year, the sun doesn't play favorites. Everyone on Earth is seemingly on equal status -- at least when it comes to the amount of light and dark they get.If you reside in the Northern Hemisphere, you know it as the. For people south of the equator, this equinox actually signals the coming of spring.
But during equinoxes, everyone from pole to pole gets to enjoy a 12-hour split of day and night. Well, there's just one rub -- it isn't as perfectly"equal" as you may have thought.12 hours of daylight on the equinox. More on that farther down.Where does the word 'equinox' come from?: The term equinox comes from the Latin word equinoxium, meaning"equality between day and night.
"Meteorological fall is different ... in that the dates never change and are based on climatological seasons rather than Earth's angle relative to the sun. These are perhaps the seasons that more people are familiar with," Chinchar says.
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