{"id":350832,"date":"2026-09-19T02:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350832\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T02:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:50:56","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-autumnal-equinox-signals-start-of-fall-shorter-days-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/350832\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Autumnal Equinox Signals Start Of Fall Shorter Days Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fall season is right around the corner! After a very hot and humid summer, many are looking forward to that change in season. Fall arrives on Sept. 22 with the Autumnal Equinox. On the equinox, the sun will rise due east and set due west.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/19ff8342-d66f-4c0c-9597-232d0b5fcef6.png\"   alt=\"19ff8342-d66f-4c0c-9597-232d0b5fcef6.png\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The word equinox comes from the Latin for \u201cequal night.\u201d Both of Earth\u2019s hemispheres are equally illuminated because the sun shines directly over the equator. Unlike on the summer solstice, the sun was directly over the Tropic of Cancer at 23.5 degrees north. This is the midpoint between summer and winter.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0a41cf12-ee01-4582-b7bb-b0f315862286.png\"   alt=\"0a41cf12-ee01-4582-b7bb-b0f315862286.png\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Earth\u2019s axial tilt is responsible for our seasons. The change in daylight over the different latitudes throughout the year gives us varying amounts of solar radiation, which in turn affects our weather.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The sun is getting lower and lower in the sky, and we will lose daylight even faster now. You probably have already noticed those much earlier sunsets. Compared to the summer solstice, when we had over 15 hours of daylight, we are now down to just 12 &#8211; and it\u2019s rapidly decreasing. That\u2019s a normal occurrence around the equinox. We saw it happen in the spring when the hours of daylight were rapidly increasing.<\/p>\n<p><img data-rich-text-asset-image=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6217c2aa-9b5a-4c45-8210-6dc2db6ab492.png\"   alt=\"6217c2aa-9b5a-4c45-8210-6dc2db6ab492.png\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the amount of daylight will continue to decrease even more through the Winter Solstice. Less daylight eventually means colder temperatures and changes in precipitation type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fall season is right around the corner! After a very hot and humid summer, many are looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-350832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}