https://xkcd.com/2825

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Of course in reality this is just a US/UK thing; in British English, ‘fall’ is the brief period in between and ‘autumn’ is the main season.

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    9 months ago

    Or as we call it in the Southern U.S., “Summer Lite,” where the daily high temps are finally at or below 90°F a good bit of the time. We keep getting teasers of autumn, but it’ll be a week or two depending on where you live. The heat index in Houston looks to be 105°F today, so autumn is still a little ways off. Ouch.