Your Stonehenge does not have to be 5,000 years old. It only needs to be a place you are accustomed to and lived in for more than a year or two. Things about this place help you measure the time of year.
- “until late October the sun shines in our living room window.”
- Five weeks a year the sun is right in my eye as I travel down, Yorkshire Boulevard
- It’s almost spring when the setting sun reflects off those windows and into my bedroom.
Two statements are important about all the above. The sun and the time.
You are aware or can be aware of a phenomenon or two, that point out a particular time of year. It can be over several months to just a day or two. Just be Observant.
- Just at sunrise for three days at the summer solstice, the sun peeks in our Den window.
- The shadow of our flagpole cast a shadow past our porch for Three weeks around 4-5 PM right around Christmas.
By themselves, they are just something that occurs. But the event are a clue to how forecasting your weather during that time is going to be different than the rest of the year.
Each season holds different weather patterns. The timing of weather change will happen slower or faster, more intense, or hardly noticeable depending on that time of year.
This Stonehenge information can be added to your observational knowledge base to help you create more accurate forecasting.
Take note that once you establish an event/season observation, it is good to acknowledge the opposite end of the event.
Count the days until the equinox or solstice day. From the start or end of the event.
“Two weeks after the First day of Autumn, the sun no longer comes through that window.”
Now the opposite:
Two weeks BEFORE the first day of Spring, the sun will be shining in that window again!
Your personal Stonehenge awaits you!