Monday, September 22, 2008

Welcome Fall!

As of 15 minutes ago, autumn has officially arrived! The autumnal equinox occurred at 15:44 UTC (or 9:44am CDT) this morning. An equinox, as defined by Wikipedia, is "the moment in time (not a whole day) when the center of the Sun can be observed to be directly above the Earth's equator." Further, "the center of the Sun will spend a nearly equal amount of time above and below the horizon at every location on Earth and night and day will be of nearly the same length." Checking the sunrise and sunset for Memphis today, sunrise was at 6:49am CDT and sunset will be at 6:53pm CDT. The closest we will be to exactly 12 hours of daylight and darkness (not counting civil twilight) will be Thursday/Friday of this week.

For more on equinoxes, check out this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinox

Our weather for the first week of fall is pretty much right on track! Mostly sunny skies and highs in the lower to mid 80s are expected all week, while lows will run in the 60s.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

SUMMER 2008`s AVERAGE TEMP WAS 79.2* / 0.8* ABOVE NORMAL !

THE HOTTEST HI WAS 99* ON JULY 21 st , AUG . 2 nd & 5 th !

THE LOWEST HI WAS 80* ON AUG . 12 th !

THE WARMEST LO WAS 77** ON AUG . 2nd !

THE COLDEST LO WAS 57* ON JUNE 18 th , 19 th & JULY 1 st !

RAINFALL TOTAL WAS 10.90 “ / 0.75 “ BELOW NORMAL !

SUMMER`S WETTEST DAY WAS 2.42 “ ** ON JUNE 13 th !

BEMIS HAD 68 DRY ( 0.00 “ ) DAY`S !
This information is from my web site : www.williamebrantley.wordpress.com - i hope it is handy on your site. i really like your site - i also like your moon rise & set showing times. thank`s from bemis , tn.

Meteorologist Erik Proseus said...

Thanks for the info William! Very interesting stats. It was definitely very warm and dry here in Memphis and Bartlett too.