Rest assured, those of us here in the southern hemisphere are not susceptible to that kind of hype.<p>In AU summer very much started (both officially and by popular understanding) 23 days ago - as it does every year - on the 1st of December.<p>Having seasons that match calendar months is <i>terribly</i> convenient.  It also aligns with our experience of hot and cold -- January is typically the hottest month (the middle of the three summer months) and July is typically the coldest month (the middle of the three winter months).  At least in the more populous urban areas of Straya.<p>The British approach of starting a season on the solstice &#x2F; equinox has always seemed somewhere between weird and quaint (more towards the inconvenient end of weird).<p>Not least because the shortest &#x2F; longest &#x2F; median day varies drastically - I think up to 4 days variance? - depending on where we are in the leap year cycle, but also (IIRC) based on where you&#x27;re standing in relation to the dateline.<p>I wonder what the appeal is of sticking to variant, non-calendar delineation of seasons?  (I appreciate that&#x27;s what the article attempts to explore .. but they don&#x27;t seem to answer the question.)   The author suggests January and July are the months with the most extreme temperature, so it presumably isn&#x27;t related to any north &#x2F; south hemisphere landmass disparity skewing temperatures.