When does the summer officially start?

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In the UK?

Answer 1

June 21st

Answer 2

June 21 here, July 14 there.

Answer 3

end of june i think but feels like it already has! xx

Answer 4

Summer officially starts in the UK June 21st at 12:00AM

Answer 5

Astronomical summer starts at the same time everywhere in the northern hemisphere: June 20, at 23:59 UTC.  

There is no "offical" date/time for the weather/climate summer.  I would say, as soon as the temperature hits 25 for a few days.

Answer 6

summer solstice is June 21 the longest day (daylight)of the year and beginning of summer.  December 21 is first day of winter and winter solstice shortest day (daylight)of the year

Answer 7

officialy at the begining of june!!

Answer 8

Sunday, 30th. March and will end 26th of October

Answer 9

summer starts at june 21st and winter starts december 21st.. officially

Answer 10

Summer begins on June 20th in 2008. The seasons are considered by some Western countries to start at the equinoxes and solstices, based on astronomical reckoning. In North American-printed English-language calendars, based on astronomy, summer begins on June 20, the day of the summer solstice and ends on September 20, the autumn equinox. When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa.

In Ireland, summer begins on 1 May and ends 31 July, by the Irish calendar.

But, because the seasonal lag is less than 1/10th of a year (except near large bodies of water), the meteorological start of the season, which is based on average temperature patterns, precedes by about three weeks the start of the astronomical season.[citation needed] According to meteorology, summer is the whole months of December, January, and February in the Southern Hemisphere, and the whole months of June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere. This meteorological definition of summer also aligns with commonly viewed notion of summer as the season with the longest (and warmest) days of the year, in which the daylight predominates, through varying degrees. The use of astronomical beginning of the seasons means that spring and summer have an almost equal pattern of the length of the days, with spring lengthening from the equinox to the solstice and summer shortening from the solstice to the equinox, while meteorological summer encompasses the build up to the longest day and decline thereafter, so that summer has many more hours of daylight than spring.

Today, the meteorological reckoning of the seasons is used in Australia, Denmark, the former USSR and by many people in the United Kingdom, but the astronomical definition is still more frequently used in the United States.

In general, seasonal changes occur later in coastal regions, so countries close to the oceans summer to start later (with the exception of Ireland) than inland ones.[citation needed] Elsewhere, however, the solstices and the equinoxes are taken to mark the mid-points, not the beginnings, of the seasons. In Chinese astronomy, for example, summer starts on or around May 5, with the jiéqì (solar term) known as Lixia (立夏), i.e. "establishment of summer", and it ends on or around August 6. An example of Western usage would be William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, where the play takes place over the shortest night of the year, which is the summer solstice.

In southern and southeast Asia where the monsoon occurs, summer is more generally defined as March to May or early June, their warmest time of the year, ending with the onset of the monsoon rains.[citation needed]

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Answer 11

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Answer 12

June 21st, my little brothers birthday :)

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June 21st

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Answer 14

In the UK, it starts June the 21st, and ends on the 31st of August, and Fall starts.

Answer 15

sumer officially starts on June 20th

Answer 16

The first day of summer is always on the summer solstice. It varies from year to year and what hemisphere of the earth you are in.

For us northern hemisphere folks, this year, the summer solstice occurs on June 20, 2008. The day varies from year to year based on tilt of the earth.