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It drives me nuts the way summer gets shorter every year in that advertising wants you to start thinking about fall almost right at the beginning of August. Some of the best trips I have had have been in August and I like to think of it more as mid summer even though the days in August are a little shorter than in July. I wouldn't mind June being thought of as more of a spring month with summer really not kicking off till July and have September be more of a summer month than a fall month.
If you have kids in school, then August is definitely end-of-summer, and September is fall. It's too bad, too, because I love the weather in September, and I would much rather travel during that month than in July.
If you have kids in school, then August is definitely end-of-summer, and September is fall. It's too bad, too, because I love the weather in September, and I would much rather travel during that month than in July.
I don't have kids but I see why if you did why August would be more of a signal of late summer.Its just that from year to year the push to make August late summer seems to get more relentless.
Some of my best memories as a kid were of trips in August. I used to go to Charleston (SC) with my mom and dad and some friends the last week in July for several years but I remember one year we went the first week in August.I loved that. I know this is all just psychological but by going it August instead of July it was like you still had a bit of summer to enjoy instead of just thinking about how school was coming up(which starts here about August 21st).
One thing I would do to extend my summer was while we were at the beach in Charleston I would try to plant the idea into my parents' head(usually my mom was more open to this idea than my dad) of going to the mountains in North Carolina when we got back from Charleston.I think I convinced my mom to go to the NC mountains at least twice after getting back from the beach. Great memories.
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It all depends. I generally consider it late summer, but it was definitely "winter" (albeit a very mild winter, as it generally is/more like a late fall in NYC) when I was in Sydney, Australia in August 2013.
It drives me nuts the way summer gets shorter every year in that advertising wants you to start thinking about fall almost right at the beginning of August. Some of the best trips I have had have been in August and I like to think of it more as mid summer even though the days in August are a little shorter than in July. I wouldn't mind June being thought of as more of a spring month with summer really not kicking off till July and have September be more of a summer month than a fall month.
I define summer as when it is either at least 85 degrees (or feels like it) for most of the month.
In New England (where lived for three years and still vacation), the lakes and ocean are not really even warm enough to go swimming until about the July 4 weekend, imo, and so to me, summer there is about July 1 to about September 15.
In Colorado, summer is from about the last week of May until about early October (although we often have one snow in September).
In California, summer is from about May 1 through the entire month of October. (At least that is how it was when I lived there from 1963-86.)
In Alabama, it felt like summer all year long!
So, in short, I think it depends on where you live or where you go!
I think that it's mid summer when you are in the point in life when you're not in school and you don't have school aged children yet. When you are in one of those two groups your concept of the year revolves around the school year and August is late summer. I remember one of the first things I had to get used to after college was that the year begins in January, not September.
It drives me nuts the way summer gets shorter every year in that advertising wants you to start thinking about fall almost right at the beginning of August. Some of the best trips I have had have been in August and I like to think of it more as mid summer even though the days in August are a little shorter than in July. I wouldn't mind June being thought of as more of a spring month with summer really not kicking off till July and have September be more of a summer month than a fall month.
Depends where you are. In Denali National Park late August is autumn. In Cape Town, it's midwinter.
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